---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-000632"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMCB"
cik: "0001085913"
company_name: "FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T06:12:58.939599+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Longest-serving director Calvin Suess resigns from Farmers & Merchants board after 35 years

## Summary
- Calvin 'Kelly' Suess resigned effective January 14, 2025, after 35 years on the board.
- Nominating committee finalizing appointment of new director; announcement expected by end of January 2025.
- New board member will be subject to shareholder approval vote at the 2025 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-000632
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMCB
- cik: 0001085913
- company_name: FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125000632/0001140361-25-000632-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125000632/ef20041214_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-000632
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-000632.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-000632.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Calvin Suess resigned as Director at FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: Farmers & Merchants Bancorp announced today that Calvin (“Kelly”) Suess, the Company’s longest serving current member of the Board of Directors, has tendered his resignation effective at the next Board of Directors Meeting to be held on January 14, 2025 after having served on the board for 35 years.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125000632/0001140361-25-000632-index.htm

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