Karin A. Orvis is a U.S. government official who was appointed to become the Chief Statistician of the United States in May, 2022.

[1][2] She is in charge of the Statistical Policy Branch of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

She held several Department of Defense positions including the Directorship of the Transition to Veterans Program Office, which supports military service members as they become veterans, and return to civilian life.

[4][5][6] In April 2022 she was appointed to be Chief Statistician of the U.S. During her tenure, she oversaw the revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No.

15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity that was published in March 2024 after an inter-governmental and public commenting process that started in 2022.