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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VIRGINIA STATE BAR, RICHMOND
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VIRGINIA STATE BAR, RICHMOND
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Promoted in 2022 to become head of the Virginia State Bar, Rountree leads a team of more than 90 employees who are responsible for the licensing of the state’s 50,000 lawyers. The bar is the administrative agency for the Supreme Court of Virginia, and it disciplines attorneys who violate the court’s rules of professional conduct and evaluates the state’s judges.
Rountree joined the bar as deputy executive director in 2019 and was interim executive director following Karen Gould’s retirement in July 2022. He previously practiced civil law and white-collar criminal defense at Williams Mullen and also was a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, where he previously had served as a law clerk.
After earning an undergraduate degree in government and Spanish from the University of Virginia, Rountree served as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. He is still an active member of the U.S. Navy Reserve.
Rountree earned his law degree at the William & Mary Law School and has a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies with distinction from the U.S. Naval War College.
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