U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 FORM 4 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 [_] Check box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b). ________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Valentine Mathias A -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last) (First) (Middle) 525 Edgemont -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Street) Park Ridge IL 60068 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (City) (State) (Zip) John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. (JBSS) ________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol ________________________________________________________________________________ 3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary) February 11, 2003 ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. Statement for Month/Day/Year ________________________________________________________________________________ 5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year) ________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) [X] Director [_] 10% Owner [X] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below) President ______________________________________________________________________________ 7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line) [X] Form filed by one Reporting Person [ ] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person ________________________________________________________________________________ ================================================================================ Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned ================================================================================ 5. 6. 4. Amount of Owner- Securities Acquired (A) or Securities ship 3. Disposed of (D) Beneficially Form: 7. 2A. Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Owned Follow- Direct Nature of 2. Deemed Code ------------------------------- ing Reported (D) or Indirect 1. Transaction Execution (Instr. 8) (A) Transaction(s) Indirect Beneficial Title of Security Date Date, if any ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership (Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Class A Common Stock 02/11/03 C(1) 20,000(1) D (1) 582,588 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 02/11/03 C(1) 20,000(1) A (1) 20,000 D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Common Stock 24 I Held By Spouse ==================================================================================================================================== * If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over) FORM 4 (continued) Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities) ================================================================================ 9. 10. Number Owner- of Deriv- ship ative Form 2. Secur- of Conver- 5. 7. ities Deriv- 11. sion Number of Title and Amount Bene- ative Nature or 3A. Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ficially Secur- of Exer- Deemed 4. Securities Date Securities Price Owned ity: In- cise 3. Execu- Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of Follow- Direct direct Price Trans- tion action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- ing Re- (D) or Bene- 1. of action Date, Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative ported In- ficial Title of Deriv- Date if any (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- Trans- direct Owner- Derivative ative (Month/ (Month 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity action(s) (I) ship Security Secur- Day/ /Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. 3) ity Year) Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Class A (2) 2/11/03 C(1) 20,000 (2) (2) Common 20,000 (2) 582,588 D Common Stock Stock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ==================================================================================================================================== Explanation of Responses: (1) Reporting person converted 20,000 shares of Class A Common Stock to an equal number of shares of common stock. (2) Class A Common Stock is convertible any time for no consideration into equal installments of shares of common stock. /s/Linda Crowley 2/12/03 ----------------------------------------- ----------------------- **Signature of Reporting Person Date By: Linda Crowley, as attorney-in-fact for Mathias A. Valentine per Power of Attorney dated February 1, 2001, an original on file with the SEC. ** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure. Page 2