---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001518715-22-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCHB"
cik: "0001518715"
company_name: "Mechanics Bancorp"
filed_at: "2022-01-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T14:56:31.229947+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HomeStreet appoints Joanne Harrell to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board expanded to ten directors; Harrell effective immediately on Jan 27, 2022.
- Harrell will serve on HRCG and Enterprise Risk Management committees.
- Harrell spent 20 years at Microsoft in sales, marketing, and services leadership.
- Previously President and CEO of United Way of King County.
- Appointment strengthens board diversity and ESG oversight, per Chairman Mark Mason.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001518715-22-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCHB
- cik: 0001518715
- company_name: Mechanics Bancorp
- filed_at: 2022-01-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1518715/000151871522000039/0001518715-22-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1518715/000151871522000039/hmst-20220127.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001518715-22-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001518715-22-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001518715-22-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Joanne Harrell was appointed as Director at Mechanics Bancorp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of HomeStreet, Inc. (“HomeStreet” or the “Company”), upon recommendation of the Board's Human Resources and Corporate Governance Committee (the "HRCG"), took action to expand the Board to ten directors and appointed Joanne Harrell to serve as a member of the Board effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1518715/000151871522000039/0001518715-22-000039-index.htm

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