---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-096149"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LEGH"
cik: "0001436208"
company_name: "Legacy Housing Corp"
filed_at: "2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:55:07.714656+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CEO Robert Duncan Bates resigns; Co-founder Kenneth Shipley named interim CEO

## Summary
- President/CEO Robert Duncan Bates resigned effective Oct 10, 2025; personal decision, no disagreement with company.
- Kenneth E. Shipley, Co-founder and EVP, assumed role of interim CEO on Oct 1, 2025.
- Shipley will not receive additional compensation for the interim CEO role.
- Company will name a permanent replacement for the CEO position.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-096149
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LEGH
- cik: 0001436208
- company_name: Legacy Housing Corp
- filed_at: 2025-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1436208/000110465925096149/0001104659-25-096149-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1436208/000110465925096149/tm2527770d1_8k.htm

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