UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
September 6, 2022
Date of Report (date of earliest event reported)
HILLS BANCORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Iowa | 0-12668 | 42-1208067 | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (Commission File Number) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | |
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| 131 E. Main Street, PO Box 160 | Hills | Iowa | 52235 | |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | | (Zip Code) | |
(319) 679-2291
Registrant's telephone number, including area code
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
Hills Bancorporation (the “Registrant”) appointed Jason Weeks, age 44, to serve as interim principal accounting officer for the Registrant effective Tuesday, September 6, 2022. As previously reported on SEC Form 8-K, filed by the Registrant on July 18, 2022, Joseph A. Schueller, the Registrant’s Treasurer and Secretary and the Registrant’s principal financial officer resigned effective Friday, September 2, 2022. Mr. Weeks serves as the Senior Vice President Finance and Reporting of the Registrant and previously served as the Financial Reporting Officer of the Registrant since 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Weeks served as Senior Director, Financial Reporting at Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. and Senior Director, Audit Services at RSM US LLP. The Registrant has commenced a search for a new principal financial officer and chief financial officer and will make a subsequent announcement regarding such appointment upon completion.
Mr. Weeks has no family relationship with any director or executive officer of the Company or any of its affiliated subsidiaries. Since the beginning of the Company’s last fiscal year, neither Mr. Weeks nor any member of his immediate family have been customers of, or have had transactions in excess of $120,000 with the Company or any of its affiliated subsidiaries which would be reportable under Item 404(a) of SEC Regulation S-K, except with respect to loans made by the Bank in its ordinary course of business and on substantially the same terms, including interest rates and collateral, as those prevailing at the time for comparable transactions with unrelated persons and did not involve more than the normal risk of collectability or present other unfavorable features.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirement of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
HILLS BANCORPORATION
Date: September 6, 2022 /s/ Dwight O. Seegmiller
Dwight O. Seegmiller, Director, President and Chief Executive Officer
