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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000857855-23-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UCB"
cik: "0000857855"
company_name: "UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T21:52:20.043723+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# United Community Banks shareholders elect 11 directors, approve say on pay, ratify auditor

## Summary
- Annual meeting held May 17, 2023; 99,950,573 shares represented (86.8% of 115,142,318 outstanding).
- All 11 director nominees elected; Lance F. Drummond received highest withhold with 15,257,757 votes withheld.
- Say-on-pay advisory resolution approved: 86,738,522 for, 2,565,456 against, 197,162 abstain.
- Ratification of PwC as auditor for 2023 approved: 98,581,066 for, 1,310,363 against, 59,144 abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000857855-23-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UCB
- cik: 0000857855
- company_name: UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/857855/000085785523000039/0000857855-23-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/857855/000085785523000039/ucbi-20230517.htm

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