---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-23-009311"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALRS"
cik: "0000903419"
company_name: "ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP"
filed_at: "2023-05-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T05:31:31.599694+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alerus stockholders elect all eight director nominees, ratify auditor at annual meeting

## Summary
- Quorum of 16,138,319 shares (80.05% of outstanding) present at May 8, 2023 annual meeting.
- All eight director nominees elected: Coughlin, Lemke, Mathews, Newman, Vetter, Lorenson, Estep, Zimmer.
- Ratification of RSM US LLP as independent auditor for 2023 passed with 16,094,286 votes for, 23,342 against.
- Broker non-votes recorded on director election proposals averaged 5,398,926 per nominee.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-23-009311
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALRS
- cik: 0000903419
- company_name: ALERUS FINANCIAL CORP
- filed_at: 2023-05-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000155837023009311/0001558370-23-009311-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/903419/000155837023009311/alrs-20230508x8k.htm

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