Simmons First National (SFNC) Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Data

On April 27, 2022, the Corporation held its Meeting at the Corporation’s corporate offices in Little Rock, Arkansas. At the Meeting, the following matters were submitted to the Corporation’s security holders for consideration: (1) ratification of the action of the Board fixing the number of directors at sixteen; (2) election of sixteen directors; (3) adoption of a non-binding resolution approving the compensation of the named executive officers of the Corporation; (4) ratification of the Audit Committee’s selection of the accounting firm BKD, LLP as independent auditors of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for the year ending December 31, 2022; (5) amendment of the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of the Corporation’s Class A Common Stock from 175,000,000 to 350,000,000; (6) amendment of the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to remove the limit on the aggregate liquidation preference of the preferred stock of the Corporation; and (7) amendment of the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to revise outdated information by (a) removing Article EIGHTEENTH and Exhibit 1 (which relate to the Corporation’s Series D Preferred Stock, which has been fully redeemed) and (b) revising the definition of “Continuing Directors” to improve clarity and readability.

At the Meeting, all sixteen directors were elected by proxies solicited pursuant to Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, without any solicitation in opposition thereto. The following table summarizes the required analysis of the voting by security holders at the Meeting:



Voting of Shares