---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000711669-25-000041"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CBAN"
cik: "0000711669"
company_name: "COLONY BANKCORP INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T02:49:48.626752+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Colony Bankcorp appoints Paul Joiner, III to Board of Directors effective March 1, 2025

## Summary
- Appointment effective March 1, 2025; board size increased from 8 to 9 directors.
- Joiner to serve on Risk Management and Audit Committees of the Company.
- Joiner is VP of Finance at SASCO Chemical Group; prior CFO at Thrush Aircraft.
- CPA with BBA and Masters in Accounting from University of Georgia.
- Board affirmatively determined Joiner is independent under NYSE listing rules.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000711669-25-000041
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CBAN
- cik: 0000711669
- company_name: COLONY BANKCORP INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711669/000071166925000041/0000711669-25-000041-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711669/000071166925000041/cban-20250226.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000711669-25-000041
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000711669-25-000041.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000711669-25-000041.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Paul Joiner, III was appointed as Director at COLONY BANKCORP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 26, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Colony Bankcorp, Inc. (the “Company”) voted to increase the size of the Board from eight to nine directors and appointed Mr. Paul Joiner, III to serve as a member of the Boards of the Company and Colony Bank, the wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Bank”), effective March 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/711669/000071166925000041/0000711669-25-000041-index.htm

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