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        Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</strong></font></div>
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        Gatewater Road, Cross Lanes, WV 25313</strong></font></div>
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        satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
        provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):</font></div>
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        1 &#8211; Registrant&#8217;s Business and Operations</strong></font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><strong>Item
        1.01&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Entry
        into a Material Definitive Agreement</strong></font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 90pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">On
        August
        1, 2007, City Holding Company (the &#8220;Company&#8221;)<strong>&#160;</strong>and City
        National Bank of West&#160;Virginia (&#8220;City National&#8221;) entered into an Employment
        Agreement with John W. Alderman III regarding his continued employment as Senior
        Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer (&#8220;Alderman Employment
        Agreement&#8221;).</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt;"></font>The
        Board of Directors of the Company,
        at its regularly scheduled meeting on July&#160;25,&#160;2007, approved the
        Alderman Employment Agreement upon recommendation by the Company&#8217;s compensation
        committee.&#160;&#160;The Alderman Employment Agreement was signed by the
        parties on August 1, 2007.&#160;&#160;The material terms and conditions of the
        Alderman Employment Agreement are as follows:</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">The
        term
        of the Alderman Employment Agreement begins as of July 25, 2007, and terminates
        on July 31, 2009, unless extended.&#160;&#160;On each monthly anniversary date
        following July&#160;31, 2007, the term is automatically extended for an
        additional month unless either the Company, City National or Mr.&#160;Alderman
        serve notice to the other parties to fix the term to a definite two year period
        from the date of such notice.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">Mr.
        Alderman will receive a minimum annual salary at a rate not less than $170,000,
        which may be adjusted upward annually, and will have the right to participate
        in
        the incentive plans of the Company and City National for which he may become
        eligible and designated a participant.&#160;&#160;In addition, Mr. Alderman will
        continue to participate in the employee pension and welfare benefits and group
        employee benefits such as sick leave, vacation, group disability and health,
        life, and accident insurance and similar indirect compensation which the Company
        and City National may from time to time extend to its officers; provided that
        Mr. Alderman will receive term life insurance coverage in an amount not less
        than two times his base salary.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt;"></font>If
        Mr. Alderman suffers a Total and
        Permanent Disability during the term of the agreement, he will continue to
        earn
        all compensation (including bonuses and incentive compensation) to which he
        would have been entitled as if he had not been Totally and Permanently Disabled
        for the first 12 months of the period, reduced by the amount of any compensation
        received pursuant to any applicable disability insurance plan of the Company
        or
        City National.&#160;&#160;Thereafter, he will receive compensation to which he
        is entitled under any applicable disability insurance plan and the Board of
        Directors may terminate Mr. Alderman&#8217;s employment.&#160;&#160;If Mr. Alderman
        dies during the term of the agreement, his estate will receive an amount equal
        to his Termination Compensation (defined below) paid over 12 equal monthly
        payments, in addition to any life insurance benefits available to all employees
        of City National. &#8220;Termination Compensation&#8221; means the highest amount of cash
        compensation paid to the employee in respect of any of the three most recent
        calendar years ending prior to the date of termination, determined by reference
        to the annual cash compensation.</font></div><br>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt;"></font>If
        the Company and City National
        terminate Mr. Alderman for reasons other than Just Cause, or Mr. Alderman
        terminates employment for Good Reason, he will receive his Termination
        Compensation paid in 12 monthly installments.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt;"></font>The
        Company and City National have the
        right to terminate Mr. Alderman for &#8220;Just Cause&#8221; if he:</font></div>
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                  an act materially detrimental to the Company or City
                  National;</font></div>
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                  convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude;
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                <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">Materially
                  breaches any other provision of the
                  agreement.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">In
        the
        event Mr. Alderman&#8217;s employment is terminated for Just Cause, he will not
        receive any compensation or other benefits after the date of
        termination.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt;"></font>Mr.
        Alderman may voluntarily terminate
        employment for &#8220;Good Reason&#8221; if any of the following events occur without his
        express written consent:</font></div>
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                  assignment to him of duties inconsistent with the position of Senior
                  Vice
                  President and Chief Legal Officer;</font></div>
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                  reduction in his pay grade or base salary or his exclusion from
                  participation in benefit plans in which he previously
                  participated;</font></div>
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                <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">An
                  involuntary relocation more than 50 miles from where he is working
                  at such
                  time or breach of any other material provision of the agreement by
                  the
                  Company or City National;</font></div>
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                <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">Any
                  purported termination of his employment by the Company or City National
                  which is not in accordance with the agreement;
                  or</font></div>
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                  occurrence of a change of control.</font></div>
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        voluntary termination of employment or termination of employment for Just Cause
        or Total and Permanent Disability, Mr.&#160;Alderman cannot:</font></div>
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                  in the consumer, savings or commercial banking business, the savings
                  and
                  loan business or the mortgage banking business in any county of any
                  state
                  in which the Company or City National maintains offices as well as
                  certain
                  other counties in West&#160;Virginia, Kentucky or
                  Ohio.</font></div>
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                  any depositors or customers of the Company, City&#160;National or their
                  affiliates; or</font></div>
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                <div style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">Induce
                  any then or former employee of the Company, City National or their
                  affiliates to terminate his or her employment with such
                  employer.</font></div>
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        period of 24 months after termination of employment for any reason, Mr. Alderman
        cannot disclose any confidential information obtained by him while in the employ
        of the Company and City National.</font></div>
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      <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 72pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="justify"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman;">The
        foregoing is a summary of the material terms of the Alderman Employment
        Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by such agreement, a copy of which
        is
        attached as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is hereby
        incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.</font></div>
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        has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the Undersigned
        hereunto duly authorized.</font></div>
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text: form8-k.htm
  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
  Date
        of
        Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported)
  August
        1, 2007
  CITY
        HOLDING COMPANY
  (Exact
        Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
  Commission
        File Number: 0-17733
  West
                  Virginia
  55-0169957
  (State
                  or Other Jurisdiction of
  (I.R.S.
                  Employer
  Incorporation
                  or Organization)
  Identification
                  No.)
  25
        Gatewater Road, Cross Lanes, WV 25313
  (Address
        of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)
  304-769-1100
  (Registrant's
        Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
  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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):
  ¨
  Written
                  communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17
                  CFR
                  230.425)
  ¨
  Soliciting
                  material pursuant to Rule 14a-12(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
                  240.14a-12(b))
  ¨
  Pre-commencement
                  communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17
                  CFR
                  240.14d-2(b))
  ¨
  Pre-commencement
                  communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act
                  (17CFR240.13e-4(c))
  -1-
  Section
        1 – Registrant's Business and Operations
  Item
        1.01                      Entry
        into a Material Definitive Agreement
  On
        August
        1, 2007, City Holding Company (the "Company")
  and City
        National Bank of West Virginia ("City National") entered into an Employment
        Agreement with John W. Alderman III regarding his continued employment as Senior
        Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer ("Alderman Employment
        Agreement").
  The
        Board of Directors of the Company,
        at its regularly scheduled meeting on July 25, 2007, approved the
        Alderman Employment Agreement upon recommendation by the Company's compensation
        committee.  The Alderman Employment Agreement was signed by the
        parties on August 1, 2007.  The material terms and conditions of the
        Alderman Employment Agreement are as follows:
  The
        term
        of the Alderman Employment Agreement begins as of July 25, 2007, and terminates
        on July 31, 2009, unless extended.  On each monthly anniversary date
        following July 31, 2007, the term is automatically extended for an
        additional month unless either the Company, City National or Mr. Alderman
        serve notice to the other parties to fix the term to a definite two year period
        from the date of such notice.
  Mr.
        Alderman will receive a minimum annual salary at a rate not less than $170,000,
        which may be adjusted upward annually, and will have the right to participate
        in
        the incentive plans of the Company and City National for which he may become
        eligible and designated a participant.  In addition, Mr. Alderman will
        continue to participate in the employee pension and welfare benefits and group
        employee benefits such as sick leave, vacation, group disability and health,
        life, and accident insurance and similar indirect compensation which the Company
        and City National may from time to time extend to its officers; provided that
        Mr. Alderman will receive term life insurance coverage in an amount not less
        than two times his base salary.
  If
        Mr. Alderman suffers a Total and
        Permanent Disability during the term of the agreement, he will continue to
        earn
        all compensation (including bonuses and incentive compensation) to which he
        would have been entitled as if he had not been Totally and Permanently Disabled
        for the first 12 months of the period, reduced by the amount of any compensation
        received pursuant to any applicable disability insurance plan of the Company
        or
        City National.  Thereafter, he will receive compensation to which he
        is entitled under any applicable disability insurance plan and the Board of
        Directors may terminate Mr. Alderman's employment.  If Mr. Alderman
        dies during the term of the agreement, his estate will receive an amount equal
        to his Termination Compensation (defined below) paid over 12 equal monthly
        payments, in addition to any life insurance benefits available to all employees
        of City National. "Termination Compensation" means the highest amount of cash
        compensation paid to the employee in respect of any of the three most recent
        calendar years ending prior to the date of termination, determined by reference
        to the annual cash compensation.
  -2-
  If
        the Company and City National
        terminate Mr. Alderman for reasons other than Just Cause, or Mr. Alderman
        terminates employment for Good Reason, he will receive his Termination
        Compensation paid in 12 monthly installments.
  The
        Company and City National have the
        right to terminate Mr. Alderman for "Just Cause" if he:
  ·
  Commits
                  an act materially detrimental to the Company or City
                  National;
  ·
  Is
                  convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude;
                  or
  ·
  Materially
                  breaches any other provision of the
                  agreement.
  In
        the
        event Mr. Alderman's employment is terminated for Just Cause, he will not
        receive any compensation or other benefits after the date of
        termination.
  Mr.
        Alderman may voluntarily terminate
        employment for "Good Reason" if any of the following events occur without his
        express written consent:
  ·
  The
                  assignment to him of duties inconsistent with the position of Senior
                  Vice
                  President and Chief Legal Officer;
  ·
  A
                  reduction in his pay grade or base salary or his exclusion from
                  participation in benefit plans in which he previously
                  participated;
  ·
  An
                  involuntary relocation more than 50 miles from where he is working
                  at such
                  time or breach of any other material provision of the agreement by
                  the
                  Company or City National;
  ·
  Any
                  purported termination of his employment by the Company or City National
                  which is not in accordance with the agreement;
                  or
  ·
  The
                  occurrence of a change of control.
  For
        a period of 24 months following a
        voluntary termination of employment or termination of employment for Just Cause
        or Total and Permanent Disability, Mr. Alderman cannot:
  ·
  Engage
                  in the consumer, savings or commercial banking business, the savings
                  and
                  loan business or the mortgage banking business in any county of any
                  state
                  in which the Company or City National maintains offices as well as
                  certain
                  other counties in West Virginia, Kentucky or
                  Ohio.
  -3-
  For
        a
        period of 24 months following a termination of employment for Good Reason or
        without Just Cause, Mr. Alderman cannot:
  ·
  Solicit
                  any depositors or customers of the Company, City National or their
                  affiliates; or
  ·
  Induce
                  any then or former employee of the Company, City National or their
                  affiliates to terminate his or her employment with such
                  employer.
  For
        a
        period of 24 months after termination of employment for any reason, Mr. Alderman
        cannot disclose any confidential information obtained by him while in the employ
        of the Company and City National.
  The
        foregoing is a summary of the material terms of the Alderman Employment
        Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by such agreement, a copy of which
        is
        attached as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is hereby
        incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.
  Section
        9 - Financial Statements and Exhibits
  Item
        9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
  (c)  Exhibits
  10.1
  Employment
                  Agreement of John W. Alderman
                  III
  Signatures
  Pursuant
        to the requirements of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant
        has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the Undersigned
        hereunto duly authorized.
  Dated:
  August 2, 2007
  City
                  Holding Company
  By:
  /s/
                  David L. Bumgarner
  David
                  L. Bumgarner
  Chief
                  Financial Officer
  -4-