---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-108787"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FHB"
cik: "0000036377"
company_name: "FIRST HAWAIIAN, INC."
filed_at: "2024-10-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T14:11:49.550998+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Hawaiian appoints Tertia M. Freas to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board size increased from 9 to 10; Freas appointed effective Oct 15, 2024.
- Freas also appointed to Audit Committee and First Hawaiian Bank board.
- Receives one-time RSU award valued at $36,446 under standard non-employee director compensation.
- Freas is executive director of Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation and former Deloitte audit partner (35 yrs).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-108787
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FHB
- cik: 0000036377
- company_name: FIRST HAWAIIAN, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-10-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000110465924108787/0001104659-24-108787-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000110465924108787/tm2425952d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-108787
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-108787.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-108787.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tertia M. Freas was appointed as Director at FIRST HAWAIIAN, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On October 15, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of First Hawaiian, Inc. (the “Company”) increased the number of directors constituting the Board from nine to ten and appointed Tertia M. Freas to serve as a member of the Board to fill the vacancy created upon the increase in the size of the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000110465924108787/0001104659-24-108787-index.htm

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