---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-007991"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PFBX"
cik: "0000770460"
company_name: "PEOPLES FINANCIAL CORP /MS/"
filed_at: "2022-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T11:16:17.814645+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peoples Financial CFO Lauri A. Wood retires; Leslie B. Fulton hired as new CFO

## Summary
- CFO Lauri A. Wood retired April 1, 2022 after 32 years; was CFO since 1994.
- Successor Leslie B. Fulton, CPA, started March 21, 2022; over 15 years banking accounting experience.
- Retirement was previously announced November 19, 2021; transition is orderly.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-007991
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PFBX
- cik: 0000770460
- company_name: PEOPLES FINANCIAL CORP /MS/
- filed_at: 2022-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/770460/000143774922007991/0001437749-22-007991-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/770460/000143774922007991/pfbx20220329_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-007991
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-007991.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-007991.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leslie B. Fulton was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at PEOPLES FINANCIAL CORP /MS/.
  - Action: hired
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The Company has hired Leslie B. Fulton who will be the new Chief Financial Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/770460/000143774922007991/0001437749-22-007991-index.htm
- Executive change
  Lauri A. Wood retired as Chief Financial Officer at PEOPLES FINANCIAL CORP /MS/.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On April 1, 2022, Lauri A. Wood, age 60, Chief Financial Officer of Peoples Financial Corporation, (the “Company”), and Senior Vice President of The Peoples Bank, Biloxi, Mississippi, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Peoples Financial Corporation, retired after thirty-two years of service.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/770460/000143774922007991/0001437749-22-007991-index.htm

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