---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001473844-25-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STEL"
cik: "0001473844"
company_name: "Stellar Bancorp, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T06:18:02.797547+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stellar Bancorp director William E. Wilson Jr. resigns from board effective June 12, 2025

## Summary
- William E. Wilson Jr. resigned from Stellar Bancorp's board on June 12, 2025, after serving since 2017.
- Wilson was a member of the Audit Committee; resignation not due to any disagreement with the company.
- No successor named; the company expressed appreciation for his service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001473844-25-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STEL
- cik: 0001473844
- company_name: Stellar Bancorp, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1473844/000147384425000043/0001473844-25-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1473844/000147384425000043/stel-20250612.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001473844-25-000043
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001473844-25-000043.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001473844-25-000043.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  William E. Wilson, Jr. resigned as Director at Stellar Bancorp, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 12, 2025, William E. Wilson, Jr., a member of the Board of Directors of Stellar Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company of his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Company, effective the same day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1473844/000147384425000043/0001473844-25-000043-index.htm

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