David Peavler is the Regional Director of the SEC’s Fort Worth Regional Office, which covers Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas. He rejoined the SEC in 2019 after serving as General Counsel for a registered broker-dealer and investment adviser. Previously, Mr. Peavler spent 15 years in the SEC’s Enforcement Division, most recently as head of Enforcement for the Fort Worth office.
In addition to his tenure at the SEC, Mr. Peavler has been a partner in the trial section of Locke Liddell (now Locke Lord), where he primarily represented major accounting firms, and in-house with Phillips Petroleum Company and ConocoPhillips, handling general corporate and transactional matters. Mr. Peavler is a lifelong Texan who received his law degree from the University of Texas and his undergraduate degree in accounting and economics from Baylor University.