---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001016281-23-000100"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CSV"
cik: "0001016281"
company_name: "CARRIAGE SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2023-07-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T02:43:32.466190+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Carriage Services board changes: Fingerhut resigns, Sanders elected independent director

## Summary
- Barry K. Fingerhut resigned from the Board effective July 25, 2023; no disagreement with company.
- Julie Sanders elected as Class II independent director, effective immediately; board size remains at seven.
- Sanders is SVP and Chief Audit Executive at Dell Technologies; will serve on Audit, Compensation, and Corporate Governance committees.
- Sanders received 743 shares of common stock valued at ~$25,000 as director compensation.
- Sanders brings experience in accounting, audit, risk management, and ESG to support Carriage's Ten-Year Vision.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001016281-23-000100
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CSV
- cik: 0001016281
- company_name: CARRIAGE SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2023-07-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000100/0001016281-23-000100-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000100/csv-20230725.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-23-000100
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-23-000100.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001016281-23-000100.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julie Sanders was elected as Class II Director at CARRIAGE SERVICES INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class II Director
  source text: the Board elected Julie Sanders to serve as a Class II Director until the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000100/0001016281-23-000100-index.htm
- Executive change
  Barry K. Fingerhut resigned as Director at CARRIAGE SERVICES INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On July 24, 2023, Barry K. Fingerhut, a member of the Carriage Services, Inc. (“Carriage” or the “Company”) Board of Directors (the “Board”), provided notice of his resignation from the Board of the Company, effective on July 25, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1016281/000101628123000100/0001016281-23-000100-index.htm

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