EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, VIRGINIA STATE BAR, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, VIRGINIA STATE BAR, RICHMOND
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Promoted in 2022 to head the state bar, Rountree leads more than 90 employees who are responsible for licensing the state’s 50,000-plus lawyers. The bar is the administrative agency of 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.
Prior to that, he practiced civil law and white-collar criminal defense at Williams Mullen and served as a special assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, Rountree served as a surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy.
Rountree earned his law degree from William & Mary and holds a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He is a board member for the Legal Services Corporation of Virginia, which funds and oversees statewide legal aid, and the Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program.
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