---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-085684"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTH"
cik: "0001265131"
company_name: "Hilltop Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T09:09:40.433743+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bolt and Sherman resign from Hilltop board; Crandall named Lead Independent Director

## Summary
- Tracy A. Bolt and A. Haag Sherman resigned from Board effective August 27, 2025; no disagreement cited.
- Board appointed J. Taylor Crandall as Lead Independent Director on August 29, 2025.
- Resignations were not due to any disagreement with Company's operations, policies, or practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-085684
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTH
- cik: 0001265131
- company_name: Hilltop Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1265131/000110465925085684/0001104659-25-085684-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1265131/000110465925085684/tm2524705d1_8k.htm

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