---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-006455"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DMLP"
cik: "0001172358"
company_name: "DORCHESTER MINERALS, L.P."
filed_at: "2025-03-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T04:57:38.986713+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Independent board member Ronald P. Trout to retire from Dorchester Minerals Board at 2025 Annual Meeting

## Summary
- Ronald P. Trout, independent manager for 17 years, will not stand for re-election at the 2025 Annual Meeting.
- His retirement is not due to any disagreement with the Company or General Partners on operations or policies.
- He will continue serving as a manager and on the Advisory Committee until the 2025 Annual Meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-006455
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DMLP
- cik: 0001172358
- company_name: DORCHESTER MINERALS, L.P.
- filed_at: 2025-03-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1172358/000143774925006455/0001437749-25-006455-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1172358/000143774925006455/dmlp20250306_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ronald P. Trout departed as Independent Member of the Board of Managers at DORCHESTER MINERALS, L.P..
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Independent Member of the Board of Managers
  source text: On March 3, 2025, Ronald P. Trout, an independent member of the Board of Managers (the “Board”) of Dorchester Minerals Management GP LLC (“DMMGP”), the general partner of Dorchester Minerals Management LP (together with DMMGP, the “General Partners”), the general partner of Dorchester Minerals, L.P. (the “Company”), informed the Board of his decision to retire from the Board at the end of his current term and not stand for re-election as a manager at the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Limited Partners (the “2025 Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1172358/000143774925006455/0001437749-25-006455-index.htm

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