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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-25-029374"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FDBC"
cik: "0001098151"
company_name: "FIDELITY D & D BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:12:35.538389+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fidelity D & D Bancorp announces retirement of director Richard Hotchkiss effective Sept. 16, 2025

## Summary
- Richard M. Hotchkiss retired from boards of Fidelity D & D Bancorp (FDBC) and its bank subsidiary, effective September 16, 2025.
- Hotchkiss served as a director since 2020; retirement not due to any disagreement with the company.
- He will continue as Chair of the Lehigh Valley Advisory Board; previously chaired Credit Administration Committee.
- Hotchkiss joined board after Fidelity's merger with MNB Corporation and Merchants Bank of Bangor in 2020.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-029374
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FDBC
- cik: 0001098151
- company_name: FIDELITY D & D BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1098151/000143774925029374/0001437749-25-029374-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1098151/000143774925029374/fdbc20250911_8k.htm

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