---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-001295"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMCB"
cik: "0001085913"
company_name: "FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T23:43:01.281951+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Farmers & Merchants Bancorp appoints Deborah Skinner to Board, filling vacancy

## Summary
- Deborah Skinner appointed to Board of Directors effective January 15, 2025.
- She fills the vacancy from the resignation of Calvin Suess.
- Skinner served as EVP and CAO for 24 years until retirement Dec 31, 2024; Board deems her not independent.
- She brings 40-year banking career including IT, operations, compliance, and cyber security expertise.
- Skinner will participate in the non-employee director compensation program.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-001295
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMCB
- cik: 0001085913
- company_name: FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125001295/0001140361-25-001295-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125001295/ef20041759_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-001295
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-001295.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-001295.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Calvin Suess resigned as Director at FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: fills the vacancy on the Board of Directors resulting from the previously announced resignation of Calvin (“Kelly”) Suess.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125001295/0001140361-25-001295-index.htm
- Executive change
  Deborah Skinner was appointed as Director at FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANCORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: The Board of Directors of Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (the “Company”) appointed Deborah Skinner to serve as a director of the Company effective January 15, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085913/000114036125001295/0001140361-25-001295-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.