---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-075302"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMAO"
cik: "0000792966"
company_name: "FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T00:49:34.807872+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Board member Jo Ellen Hornish resigns from Farmers & Merchants Bancorp effective May 20, 2025

## Summary
- Resignation effective May 20, 2025, following board meeting.
- Hornish served on board since 2013, including Audit and Governance committees.
- No reason for resignation or disagreement disclosed.
- No replacement named; board size reduced by one.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-075302
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMAO
- cik: 0000792966
- company_name: FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/792966/000095017025075302/0000950170-25-075302-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/792966/000095017025075302/fmao-20250520.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-075302
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-075302.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-075302.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Jo Ellen Hornish resigned as Director at FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Effective May 20, 2025, Jo Ellen Hornish resigned from the Board of Directors of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, Inc.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/792966/000095017025075302/0000950170-25-075302-index.htm

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