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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001538263-23-000043"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HTB"
cik: "0001538263"
company_name: "HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-09-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T23:56:38.674187+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HomeTrust Bancshares appoints Lora Jex as EVP & Chief Risk Officer effective August 31, 2023

## Summary
- Lora Jex named Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of HomeTrust Bancshares and HomeTrust Bank.
- She oversees risk teams for compliance, operations, balance sheet management, and strategy.
- Jex has over 20 years of banking experience, previously at Southern First Bank and South State Bank.
- She reports functionally to the Audit Committee and administratively to CEO C. Hunter Westbrook.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001538263-23-000043
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HTB
- cik: 0001538263
- company_name: HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-09-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538263/000153826323000043/0001538263-23-000043-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1538263/000153826323000043/htbi-20230905.htm

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