---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001331520-25-000082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HOMB"
cik: "0001331520"
company_name: "HOME BANCSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T17:01:56.634153+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Home BancShares board member J. Pat Hickman passes away on March 1, 2025

## Summary
- J. Pat Hickman, board member since April 2022, passed away suddenly on March 1, 2025.
- He served on the Asset/Liability Committee and was founding CEO/Chairman of Happy Bancshares, acquired by Home in 2022.
- Chairman John W. Allison highlighted Hickman's experience and friendship; company expressed condolences.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001331520-25-000082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HOMB
- cik: 0001331520
- company_name: HOME BANCSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152025000082/0001331520-25-000082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1331520/000133152025000082/homb-20250301.htm

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