---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000857855-24-000045"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UCB"
cik: "0000857855"
company_name: "UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T22:15:21.661166+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# United Community Banks holds 2024 annual meeting; all director nominees elected

## Summary
- Shareholders elected 12 directors with terms expiring 2025; Lance F. Drummond received 82.8M for and 11.3M withheld.
- Advisory say-on-pay resolution approved with 91.5M for, 2.1M against, 0.5M abstain.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor for 2024 passed with 104.4M for, 1.0M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000857855-24-000045
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UCB
- cik: 0000857855
- company_name: UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-16T23:59:59+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/857855/000085785524000045/0000857855-24-000045-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/857855/000085785524000045/ucbi-20240515.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000857855-24-000045.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 3b44ef4a5e7df10349c532d6b95af4a431b6b56a
  claim: UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC shareholders approved Advisory vote on executive compensation at the 2024-05-15 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 2. The approval of an advisory "say on pay" resolution supporting the compensation plan for executive officers: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 91,461,651 2,120,577 482,171 11,395,802
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/857855/000085785524000045/0000857855-24-000045-index.htm
- claim_id: 7a3f30fcb6bcb5cdefebc0ab9250431060c3e937
  claim: UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC shareholders approved Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent auditor at the 2024-05-15 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 3. The ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm for the Company for the year ending December 31, 2024: For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 104,419,307 1,003,706 37,188 —
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/857855/000085785524000045/0000857855-24-000045-index.htm
- claim_id: d471007705a3decf08b53c6cf62d6fc8716aa5fd
  claim: UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INC shareholders approved Election of 12 directors at the 2024-05-15 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 1. The election of 12 directors to constitute the Board of Directors to serve until the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders and until their successors are elected and qualified:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/857855/000085785524000045/0000857855-24-000045-index.htm

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