---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000721994-24-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LKFN"
cik: "0000721994"
company_name: "LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2024-04-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T00:39:39.768639+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lakeland Financial annual meeting elects 11 directors, approves say-on-pay and auditor

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected, each with terms expiring in 2025; votes for ranged from 17.6M to 19.9M.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 19.25M for, 0.78M against, 61k abstain.
- Ratification of Crowe LLP as independent auditor for FY2024 passed with 22.73M for, 0.22M against.
- Broker non-votes of 2.89M recorded on director elections and say-on-pay; none on auditor ratification.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000721994-24-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LKFN
- cik: 0000721994
- company_name: LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2024-04-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199424000024/0000721994-24-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199424000024/lkfn-20240409.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000721994-24-000024.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Approval of Advisory Proposal on Executive Compensation at the 2024-04-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-09
  source text: Approval of Advisory Proposal on Executive Compensation: For Against Abstain/Withhold Broker Non-votes 19,250,588 779,612 61,147 2,888,485
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199424000024/0000721994-24-000024-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-04-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-09
  source text: On April 9, 2024, the Company's annual meeting of stockholders was held. At the meeting, the stockholders elected A. Faraz Abbasi, Blake W. Augsburger, Robert E. Bartels, Jr., Darrianne P. Christian, David M. Findlay, Emily E. Pichon, Kristin L. Pruitt, Steven D. Ross, Brian J. Smith, Bradley J. Toothaker, and M. Scott Welch, each with terms expiring in 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199424000024/0000721994-24-000024-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP shareholders approved Ratification of Crowe LLP as Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the year ended December 31, 2024 at the 2024-04-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-09
  source text: Ratification of Crowe LLP as Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm: For Against Abstain/Withhold Broker Non-votes 22,728,078 219,803 31,951
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199424000024/0000721994-24-000024-index.htm

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