---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000726854-26-000171"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHCO"
cik: "0000726854"
company_name: "CITY HOLDING CO"
filed_at: "2026-09-30T19:13:49+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T14:02:52.215451+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# City Holding adds Jessica Alsop (WVU Health System) and Vonda Huss (Brighthouse) to board, effective Sept 30, 2026

## Summary
- Alsop appointed Class I director (term expires at 2030 annual meeting); Huss appointed Class II director (term expires 2028); both stand for election at the April 2027 annual meeting.
- Alsop has been senior vice president and chief legal officer of WVU Health System since 2019; earlier in-house counsel at Noble Energy and 12 years in private practice at Jackson Kelly.
- Huss has been executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Brighthouse Financial since 2017; previously spent 29 years at Wells Fargo, starting as a bank teller.
- Neither appointee has been placed on any Board committee; compensation will match the standard non-employee director arrangements described on page 14 of the 2026 proxy statement.
- City National Bank of West Virginia, a City Holding affiliate, also appointed Alsop and Huss to its board; City Holding is a $6.8 billion holding company with 95 branches in WV, KY, VA and OH.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000726854-26-000171
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHCO
- cik: 0000726854
- company_name: CITY HOLDING CO
- filed_at: 2026-09-30T19:13:49+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/726854/000072685426000171/0000726854-26-000171-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/726854/000072685426000171/chco-20260930.htm

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