Taft Matney

Taft Matney

Seat Number 1

Elected in November 2013

Taft Matney is a public relations and governmental affairs consultant who grew up in Mauldin and graduated Mauldin High School before attending the University of South Carolina Upstate and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in government and business.

Taft is an usher captain at Mauldin Methodist Church, and if you attended a sporting event at Mauldin High School’s Freeman Field over the past eight years, you heard him over the public address system where he was the PA announcer for varsity football until the end of 2024.

Previously, he served as chair of the Mauldin High School Athletic Booster Club. He was a member of the Mauldin High and Mauldin Middle School Improvement Councils (SICs), a board member of the YMCA of Greenville, a past chair of its Youth In Government (YIG) / Teen Services branch, and a board member of the Prisma Health Family YMCA branch. He volunteered as an assistant coach for Mauldin High School’s debate team, as a board member of Easter Seals of Greenville, and he served on several additional committees at Mauldin Methodist including the History Committee and as a co-chair of the church’s Preschool & Kindergarten. He was a member of the Advisory Council of Prisma Health (formerly the Greenville Health System) and Memorial Medical Campus and the Government Task Force of Greenville Forward.

Before being elected to Mauldin City Council, Taft served on the City Center, Economic Development, and Cultural Resources subcommittee for the City of Mauldin’s Comprehensive Plan in June 2008 and on the City’s Main Street Steering Committee in early July of that year.

Taft is married and has one son.