[1/2] A boardroom is seen at the legal offices of the law firm Polsinelli in New York City, New York, U.S., June 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew KellyAug 9 (Reuters) - Boards of S&P 500 companies made recruiting directors with financial expertise their top priority over the past year, slowing boardroom gains for minorities, according to a new report. According to research firm Equilar, just three of 68 financial services CEOs in the S&P 500 are nonwhite. Investors have sought more boardroom diversity as part of a broader U.S. reckoning on race relations. The decline in the share of new minority directors came from a drop in Black or African-American directors.

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Persons: Polsinelli, Andrew Kelly, Spencer Stuart, Julie Daum, Spencer Stuart's, Daum, Ross Kerber, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: REUTERS, Investors, Thomson Locations: New York City , New York, U.S