---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-21-046382"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SBFG"
cik: "0000767405"
company_name: "SB FINANCIAL GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2021-09-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T06:16:52.506814+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SB Financial Group appoints Timothy L. Claxton as independent director

## Summary
- Board appointed Timothy L. Claxton effective September 1, 2021, to serve until the 2023 annual meeting.
- Claxton is a partner at Burt Blee with over 32 years of experience in financial law, real estate, and banking.
- He was determined to be independent under NASDAQ and SEC rules and has no reportable transactions with the company.
- He will serve on the boards of both SB Financial Group and The State Bank and Trust Company.
- Claxton previously served on State Bank’s Fort Wayne Advisory Board and is active in local community programs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-21-046382
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SBFG
- cik: 0000767405
- company_name: SB FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-09-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/767405/000121390021046382/0001213900-21-046382-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/767405/000121390021046382/ea146859-8k_sbfinancial.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-046382
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-046382.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-21-046382.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Timothy L. Claxton was appointed as Director at SB FINANCIAL GROUP, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: appointed Timothy L. Claxton to serve as an independent Director on the Board of Directors of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/767405/000121390021046382/0001213900-21-046382-index.htm

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