UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549



FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): October 19, 2010

 

First Horizon National Corporation

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)


 

 

 

 

 

TN

 

001-15185

 

62-0803242

(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(IRS Employer
Identification No.)


 

 

 

 

 

165 MADISON AVENUE

 

 

 

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

38103

 

 

(Address of Principal Executive Office)

(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code - (901) 523-4444

(Former name or former address, if changed from last report)


Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

 

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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

(b) Departures

          Simon F. Cooper previously notified the Company that he would tender his resignation as a director of the Company later this year because he was moving to Hong Kong at year-end as a result of his appointment as President and Managing Director of Marriott International, Asia Pacific. This was the subject of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 23, 2010. On October 19, 2010, the Company’s Board of Directors accepted his resignation effective December 31, 2010.

 

 

ITEM 5.03.

Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year

Amendment of Bylaws

          (1) On October 19, 2010, the Company’s Board of Directors amended ARTICLE THREE, Section 3.2 of the Company’s Bylaws. The Bylaws are amended immediately as described below. The amended and restated Bylaws are filed herewith as Exhibit 3.1.

          (2) The amendment to Section 3.2 decreases the size of the Company’s Board of Directors from eleven to ten persons effective on January 1, 2011.

 

 

ITEM 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

The following exhibits are filed herewith:

 

 

 

 

Exhibit #

 

Description

 


 


 

 

 

 

3.1

 

Bylaws of First Horizon National Corporation, as amended and restated October 19, 2010

All summaries and descriptions of documents, and of amendments thereto, set forth above are qualified in their entirety by the documents themselves, whether filed as an exhibit hereto or filed as an exhibit to a later report.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements 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.

 

 

 

 

 

First Horizon National Corporation

 

(Registrant)

 

 

 

Date: October 21, 2010

By:

/s/ Clyde A. Billings, Jr.

 

 

 


 

 

 

Senior Vice President, Assistant

 

 

General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

EX-3.1

Bylaws of First Horizon National Corporation, as amended and restated October 19, 2010