---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001275101-25-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BOTJ"
cik: "0001275101"
company_name: "BANK OF THE JAMES FINANCIAL GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-10-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T01:15:22.748840+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BOTJ CFO Scruggs to become CIO; General Counsel Sorenson named CFO effective Jan 1, 2026

## Summary
- J. Todd Scruggs, CFO since 1999 for Bank of the James, transitions to newly created CIO role effective Jan 1, 2026.
- Eric J. Sorenson Jr., General Counsel since 2022, appointed CFO; will oversee financial, accounting, treasury, budgeting, reporting.
- Transition is orderly; Board states no disagreement with company or management; no new compensatory arrangements.
- Scruggs and Sorenson will work closely; Sorenson brings 25+ years of advisory experience on regulatory, legal, and financial matters.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001275101-25-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BOTJ
- cik: 0001275101
- company_name: BANK OF THE JAMES FINANCIAL GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-10-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275101/000127510125000005/0001275101-25-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1275101/000127510125000005/botj-20251028x8k.htm

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