Justin Jeffries

Justin C. Jeffries is the Associate Director for the SEC’s Atlanta Regional Office, where he heads the Enforcement program. Justin joined the SEC’s Division of Enforcement as a staff attorney in 2010 and was promoted to Assistant Regional Director in 2017 and Associate Regional Director in 2019. He also served as a counsel to the Division Director. During his tenure at the SEC, Justin has investigated or supervised a number of high-profile investigations and enforcement actions in all of the Commission’s major program areas. Before joining the SEC, Justin worked as a senior associate in King & Spalding in Atlanta and as an associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Washington, D.C. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable William S. Duffey, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Justin received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Duke University.