---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-127597"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRBS"
cik: "0000842717"
company_name: "BLUE RIDGE BANKSHARES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T12:17:55.565960+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blue Ridge Bankshares eliminates classified board, phases in annual director elections over three years

## Summary
- Shareholders approved amendment to declassify Board of Directors at May 21, 2025 annual meeting; effective same day.
- Directors elected at 2026 and 2027 meetings will serve one-year terms; all directors annual starting 2028.
- Bylaws amended to reflect declassified board; CEO designated as chair of shareholder meetings.
- Certain technical and ministerial revisions also made to bylaws.
- Amendment was adopted by board on Feb 19, 2025 and filed with Virginia State Corporation Commission.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-127597
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRBS
- cik: 0000842717
- company_name: BLUE RIDGE BANKSHARES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842717/000119312525127597/0001193125-25-127597-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842717/000119312525127597/d930143d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BLUE RIDGE BANKSHARES, INC.: Amended multiple bylaw sections to conform to declassification, including officer roles at shareholder meetings, removal of director class references, and board election provisions (effective 2025-05-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-21
  source text: On May 21, 2025, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted amendments to the Company’s Bylaws, effective upon the effective date of the Amendment (May 21, 2025), as follows: (i) revisions to Article 3, Section 6 to reflect that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and not the President shall serve as chairman of shareholder meetings and that the Company’s President and not any Vice President shall preside over shareholder meetings if the Chief Executive Officer is not present at a shareholders meeting; (ii) revisions to Article 4, Section 4, Paragraph 6 to remove references to classes of directors; (iii) revisions to Article 4, Section 4, Paragraph 8 to remove a provision relating to the ability of the Board of Directors to remove a director; (iv) revisions to Article 4, Section 5 to replace provisions relating to the Company having a classified Board of Directors with staggered three-year board terms with provisions relating to the Company having a nonclassified Board of Directors wit
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842717/000119312525127597/0001193125-25-127597-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  BLUE RIDGE BANKSHARES, INC.: Eliminated classified board structure to provide for annual election of directors, phased in over three years starting 2026 (effective 2025-05-21).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-21
  source text: On May 21, 2025, Article VI of the Articles of Incorporation of Blue Ridge Bankshares, Inc. (the “Company”) was amended to eliminate the classified structure of the Company’s Board of Directors and provide for the annual election of directors (the “Amendment”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842717/000119312525127597/0001193125-25-127597-index.htm

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