---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000721994-25-000149"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LKFN"
cik: "0000721994"
company_name: "LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T11:27:18.427100+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lakeland Financial appoints Dan Starr and Mindy Creighton Truex as directors

## Summary
- Dan Starr (CEO of Do it Best Corp.) and Mindy Creighton Truex (President of Creighton Brothers Farms) joined the board on May 13, 2025.
- Starr appointed to Governance Committee; Creighton Truex appointed to Audit Committee.
- Starr brings legal and home improvement co-op leadership; Creighton Truex brings agribusiness and nonprofit board experience.
- Both are independent directors with no arrangements or understandings regarding their selection.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000721994-25-000149
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LKFN
- cik: 0000721994
- company_name: LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199425000149/0000721994-25-000149-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199425000149/lkfn-20250513.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000721994-25-000149
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000721994-25-000149.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000721994-25-000149.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mindy Creighton Truex was appointed as director at LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On May 13, 2025, the Board of Directors of Lakeland Financial Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Dan Starr and Mindy Creighton Truex as directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199425000149/0000721994-25-000149-index.htm
- Executive change
  Dan Starr was appointed as director at LAKELAND FINANCIAL CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: director
  source text: On May 13, 2025, the Board of Directors of Lakeland Financial Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Dan Starr and Mindy Creighton Truex as directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721994/000072199425000149/0000721994-25-000149-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.