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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001718227-21-000100"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ROAD"
cik: "0001718227"
company_name: "Construction Partners, Inc."
filed_at: "2021-11-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T10:51:37.655073+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Construction Partners elects CEO Fred J. Smith, III to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Board expanded from 7 to 8 directors; Smith elected Class I director, term until 2022 annual meeting.
- Smith to receive no additional compensation for board role; remains President and CEO.
- Related party transactions disclosed: $848K promissory note from Smith's brother; $8.6M paid to brother-in-law's entity in FY2021.
- Smith personally assumed a $774K note from FSC in March 2021 at 4% interest with annual $100K minimum payments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001718227-21-000100
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ROAD
- cik: 0001718227
- company_name: Construction Partners, Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-11-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718227/000171822721000100/0001718227-21-000100-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718227/000171822721000100/road-20211104.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001718227-21-000100
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001718227-21-000100.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001718227-21-000100.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Fred J. Smith, III was elected as Class I Director at Construction Partners, Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Class I Director
  source text: On November 4, 2021, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Construction Partners, Inc. (the “Company”), in accordance with the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws and upon the recommendation of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, increased the size of the Board from seven (7) directors to eight (8) directors and elected Fred J. (Jule) Smith, III, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, to fill the vacancy created by the increase in the size of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1718227/000171822721000100/0001718227-21-000100-index.htm

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