---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-128779"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GSBC"
cik: "0000854560"
company_name: "GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC."
filed_at: "2023-12-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T08:36:52.668696+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Great Southern Bancorp appoints Amelia Counts to board effective Jan 1, 2024

## Summary
- Amelia 'Amy' Counts appointed to boards of Great Southern Bancorp and Great Southern Bank, effective January 1, 2024.
- Ms. Counts will serve on Audit, Compensation, and Corporate Governance & Nominating Committees.
- She brings 25+ years of sales and marketing experience; currently regional VP at Wise F&I.
- Director compensation: $1,500 per Company board meeting; Bank board fee rising to $3,250 in January 2024.
- Her term expires at the 2025 annual meeting; she fills an existing director vacancy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-128779
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GSBC
- cik: 0000854560
- company_name: GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-12-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/854560/000110465923128779/0001104659-23-128779-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/854560/000110465923128779/tm2333646d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Amelia Counts was appointed as Director at GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On December 20, 2023, the Boards of Directors of Great Southern Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) and Great Southern Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Bank”), appointed Amelia “Amy” Counts as a director of the Company and the Bank, with her service to commence January 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/854560/000110465923128779/0001104659-23-128779-index.htm

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