Employee Benefit and Deferred Compensation Plans (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Retirement Benefits [Abstract]

Plan expense for non-contributory benefit pension plan and post-retirement health and life plans

Information related to the defined benefit pension plan maintained by Renasant Bank (“Pension Benefits”) and to the post-retirement health and life plan (“Other Benefits”) as of the dates presented is as follows:

	Pension Benefits						Other Benefits
	Three Months Ended						Three Months Ended
	March 31,						March 31,
	2020			2019			2020			2019
Service cost	$	—		$	—		$	2		$	2
Interest cost	242			273			5			8
Expected return on plan assets	(413		)	(363		)	—			—
Recognized actuarial loss (gain)	79			86			(18		)	(14		)
Net periodic benefit return	$	(92	)	$	(4	)	$	(11	)	$	(4	)

Summary of the changes in stock options and restricted stock

The following table summarizes the changes in restricted stock as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2020:

	Performance-Based Restricted Stock		Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value		Time- Based Restricted Stock		Weighted Average Grant-Date Fair Value
Nonvested at beginning of period	115,725		$	34.00	500,932		$	36.34
Awarded	81,423		35.42		210,893		35.42
Vested	—		—		(83,740	)	39.71
Cancelled	(2,233	)	33.70		(22,427	)	37.43
Nonvested at end of period	194,915		$	34.60	605,658		$	35.51

The following table summarizes information about options outstanding, exercised and forfeited as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2020:

	Shares	Weighted Average Exercise Price
Options outstanding at beginning of period	29,250	$	15.86
Granted	—	—
Exercised	—	—
Forfeited	—	—
Options outstanding at end of period	29,250	$	15.86