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) December 9, 1997

             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

                           Flexsteel Industries, Inc.

(State or other jurisdiction         (Commission           (IRS Employer
     of incorporation)               File Number)        Identification No.)

         Minnesota                      0-5151               42-0442319


Registrant's telephone number, including area code  319-556-7730

Item 5.  Other Events

         The registrant appointed two persons as new members of its Board of
Directors on December 9, 1997. See Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated
herein for further information.

         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.


                                                    Flexsteel Industries, Inc.
                                                            (Registrant)

Date December 19, 1997                           By: /s/ R.J. Klosterman
                                                           R.J. Klosterman
                                                     Financial Vice President &
                                                     Principal Financial Officer




                                   EXHIBIT A

                       To Form 8-K dated December 19, 1997

         Two new directors have been appointed to the Board of Directors,
effective immediately. They are Pat Crahan, Vice President and General Manager
of Flexsteel's Dubuque upholstery plant; and Jeff Bertsh, Vice President,
Support Services, also located in the Dubuque home office.

         Since 1989, Jeff Bertsh has served as vice president of support
services, concentrating on the technological aspects of Flexsteel's sales,
order-taking, communications, and, most recently video cataloging, while Pat
Crahan has been Dubuque's general manager of upholstery since 1985, and involved
in the company's nation-wide quality control program known as Quality Counts.

         Bertsch joined Flexsteel in 1980 as production manager for the home
office in Dubuque, and subsequently served as plant manager for an upholstering
plant in Waxahachie, Texas; before returning to Dubuque to direct support
services. He has a B.S. in Accounting from Marquette University, and is a member
of both the American Institute of Industrial Engineers and Beta Alpha Psi, a
national accounting fraternity.

         Crahan joined Flexsteel in 1983 after ten years' experience in
financial positions. He was named General Manager of the Dubuque Upholstery
Division in 1985, and a Vice President in 1989. He received a B.S. in Accounting
and an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and is also a Certified Public
Accountant.