---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000737468-24-000008"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WASH"
cik: "0000737468"
company_name: "WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2024-02-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T04:33:58.474345+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Washington Trust appoints Debra M. Paul and Angel Taveras to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Effective March 1, 2024, Debra M. Paul (former CPA, ex-CEO of FHR) and Angel Taveras (former Providence Mayor, attorney) join the Board.
- Ms. Paul brings accounting, auditing, and leadership experience; Mr. Taveras brings legal and public sector expertise.
- Taveras fills a vacancy from board expansion; both directors are independent under Nasdaq rules.
- No arrangements or transactions requiring disclosure; compensation per standard non-employee director policies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000737468-24-000008
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WASH
- cik: 0000737468
- company_name: WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2024-02-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/737468/000073746824000008/0000737468-24-000008-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/737468/000073746824000008/wash-20240208.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000737468-24-000008
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000737468-24-000008.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000737468-24-000008.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Angel Taveras was appointed as Director at WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On February 8, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. (the “Corporation”) appointed Angel Taveras, Esq. to serve as a director of the Corporation effective as of March 1, 2024, filling a vacancy created by an expansion of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/737468/000073746824000008/0000737468-24-000008-index.htm

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