---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001206774-24-000967"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SFST"
cik: "0001090009"
company_name: "SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2024-10-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T09:35:52.148028+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southern First names Julie Fairchild as Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Julie Fairchild, 50, appointed CAO of Southern First Bank effective October 13, 2024.
- Fairchild will serve as principal accounting officer; Christian Zych steps down from that role.
- Fairchild has over 25 years experience, most recently EVP of Accounting and Finance at the bank.
- No family relationships or related party transactions with executive officers or directors.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001206774-24-000967
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SFST
- cik: 0001090009
- company_name: SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2024-10-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090009/000120677424000967/0001206774-24-000967-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090009/000120677424000967/sfst4398851-8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-24-000967
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-24-000967.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001206774-24-000967.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julie A. Fairchild was named as Chief Accounting Officer at SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: named
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On October 13, 2024, Southern First Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”), announced that Julie A. Fairchild, 50, has been named Chief Accounting Officer of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Southern First Bank (the “Bank”) effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090009/000120677424000967/0001206774-24-000967-index.htm
- Executive change
  Christian Zych changed role as Chief Financial Officer at SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC.
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: In connection with Ms. Fairchild’s appointment, the Company and the Bank’s current Chief Financial Officer, Christian Zych, has stepped down from the role of principal accounting officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1090009/000120677424000967/0001206774-24-000967-index.htm

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