---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-034000"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RCKY"
cik: "0000895456"
company_name: "ROCKY BRANDS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-12-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T15:57:29.856607+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rocky Brands director Mike Brooks resigns, effective Dec 31, 2023

## Summary
- Mike Brooks resigned as Class I director effective Dec 31, 2023.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with the company.
- Board reduced size to 9 members by eliminating the vacated directorship.
- Brooks served on the board since 1992 and was Chairman from 2005 to 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-034000
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RCKY
- cik: 0000895456
- company_name: ROCKY BRANDS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-12-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895456/000143774923034000/0001437749-23-034000-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895456/000143774923034000/rcky20231207_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-034000
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-034000.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-23-034000.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mike Brooks resigned as Class I director at ROCKY BRANDS, INC..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Class I director
  source text: On December 7, 2023, Mike Brooks provided the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Rocky Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) with notice of his resignation and retirement from his position as a Class I director of the Company, effective as of December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/895456/000143774923034000/0001437749-23-034000-index.htm

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