---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001046025-22-000073"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HFWA"
cik: "0001046025"
company_name: "HERITAGE FINANCIAL CORP /WA/"
filed_at: "2022-05-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T00:20:42.277627+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Heritage Financial shareholders elect all 12 directors, approve say-on-pay and auditor

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected with 24.3M to 24.9M votes for; terms expire 2023.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed: 24.4M for, 526k against, 194k abstain.
- Crowe LLP ratified as auditor for FY2022 with 27.9M votes for, 187k against.
- Meeting held May 3, 2022; 28.1M shares represented (80% of 35.0M outstanding).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001046025-22-000073
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HFWA
- cik: 0001046025
- company_name: HERITAGE FINANCIAL CORP /WA/
- filed_at: 2022-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046025/000104602522000073/0001046025-22-000073-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046025/000104602522000073/hfwa-20220503.htm

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