Emory Arthur Rounds III is an American attorney and government ethics official who is a former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics.

He was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve a five-year term.

[1][2] Rounds served as an ethics attorney at the United States Department of Commerce and in the Judge Advocate General's Office in the U.S. Navy, where he attained the rank of Commander.

[5] Rounds is a graduate of King Philip Regional High School, in Wrentham, Massachusetts.

[citation needed] He is married with five children, and is a resident of southern Maine - a state he always desired to return to following a tour stationed at Brunswick Naval Air Station during the 1980s.