---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001016281-23-000042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CSV"
cik: "0001016281"
company_name: "CARRIAGE SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2023-02-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T23:11:19.869943+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Carriage Services elects President/COO Carlos Quezada to Board as Vice Chairman

## Summary
- Carlos R. Quezada elected Class II director, effective immediately, until 2025 annual meeting.
- Quezada also appointed Vice Chairman of the Board; no additional compensation for board role.
- Board now comprises six directors, including four independent directors.
- Code of Business Conduct and Ethics amended effective Feb 22, 2023, clarifying bribery, antitrust, political activity policies.
- Quezada joined Carriage in 2020; previously Managing Director at Service Corporation International.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001016281-23-000042
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CSV
- cik: 0001016281
- company_name: CARRIAGE SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2023-02-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000042/0001016281-23-000042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000042/csv-20230227.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-23-000042
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-23-000042.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-23-000042.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Carlos R. Quezada was appointed as Vice Chairman of the Board at CARRIAGE SERVICES INC.
  - Action: elected and appointed
  - Role: Vice Chairman of the Board
  source text: On February 22, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Carriage Services, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Carlos R. Quezada, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, to serve as a Class II director, effective immediately, until the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders. The Board also appointed Mr. Quezada to serve as Vice Chairman of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000042/0001016281-23-000042-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  CARRIAGE SERVICES INC: Amendments to the Company's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, effective February 22, 2023, summarizing and clarifying compliance requirements and expanding policies on bribery, kickbacks, antitrust, political activity, and improper influence on auditors (effective 2023-02-22).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2023-02-22
  source text: Effective February 22, 2023, the Company’s Board, on the recommendation of the Board’s Audit Committee, approved various amendments to the Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code”), which applies to all directors, officers and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000042/0001016281-23-000042-index.htm

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