John C. Mattimore is Associate Regional Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Miami Regional Office. Mr. Mattimore has been at the Commission since 2004 and oversees the office’s examination program.

Previously, he had been an Assistant Regional Director in the Miami office's enforcement program since 1997, and has served as a Branch Chief and Staff Attorney. Mr. Mattimore joined the SEC in 1993, after having been an associate with Cravath Swaine & Moore in New York City and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in West Palm Beach. Mr. Mattimore was a judicial law clerk for Judge Lenore Nesbitt, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida from 1986-1987, and for Judge Robert Varner, United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama from 1985-1986.

Mr. Mattimore graduated from the University of Miami Law School in 1983. From 1980 to 1981 he attended the University of North Carolina Law School, where he was invited onto the Law Review. Mr. Mattimore received his B.A. in 1974 and MBA in 1979 from Florida International University.