---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-011055"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FUSB"
cik: "0000717806"
company_name: "FIRST US BANCSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T06:02:38.264860+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director John C. Gordon resigns; Board amends mandatory retirement age bylaw

## Summary
- John C. Gordon resigned from the Board effective Jan. 31, 2025, after serving since 1997; no disagreement cited.
- Board amended bylaws to allow annual Board vote to waive mandatory retirement at age 75 for non-employee directors.
- Bylaw amendment adopted Jan. 29, 2025, effective immediately.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-011055
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FUSB
- cik: 0000717806
- company_name: FIRST US BANCSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717806/000095017025011055/0000950170-25-011055-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717806/000095017025011055/fusb-20250129.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-011055.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John C. Gordon resigned as Director at FIRST US BANCSHARES, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 29, 2025, Mr. John C. Gordon, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of First US Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his resignation as a director of the Company effective January 31, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717806/000095017025011055/0000950170-25-011055-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  FIRST US BANCSHARES, INC.: Bylaw amended to allow Board to annually waive mandatory retirement age of 75 for non-employee directors (effective 2025-01-29).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-01-29
  source text: Also on January 29, 2025, the Board adopted an amendment to the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (as amended, the “Bylaws”), effective on such date. Previously, the Bylaws provided that if a non-employee director attains the age of seventy-five (75) years during his or her term as a director, he or she may complete his or her then current term but may not stand for election or re-election as a director of the Company thereafter. The Board is amending the Bylaws to provide that the Board may vote, on an annual basis, to waive this mandatory retirement age for a non-employee director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717806/000095017025011055/0000950170-25-011055-index.htm

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