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George Rountree, III, 72, has served on Southern Union Company’s board of directors since 1990. He is chairman of the board’s Compensation Committee and a member of its Corporate Governance and Independent Directors’ Committees.
Rountree is the senior partner in the law firm of Rountree, Losee & Baldwin, LLP, Wilmington, North Carolina.
Active in governmental affairs, from 1971 to 1974, Rountree served in the North Carolina State Senate, as minority whip for a year, and in the State House of Representatives. He was later legislative counsel to North Carolina Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr., and was also a former member of the State Advisory Budget Commission and the Southern Growth Policies Board. Since 1995, Rountree has served as the North Carolina House of Representative’s appointee to the Southeastern North Carolina Regional Economic Development Commission.
Rountree is a 1960 graduate of the University of Arizona College of Law. He graduated cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree, from the University of Arizona. A distinguished graduate of the Corps of Cadets and ROTC, Rountree was a Baird Scholar and a 1955 Rhodes Scholar candidate.
Rountree is a former trustee of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (1989 - 1992) and served as director of the University’s Alumni Association (1992 - 2001). He is currently a member of the University’s College of Law national board of visitors. He serves as a director of the University of Arizona Foundation and since 2003 has been a member of its executive committee. A recipient of numerous honors and awards, Rountree was presented the University of Arizona’s Huffman Award in 1992, its John Button Salmon Award in 1993 and its Silver Anniversary CATS Award for distinguished academic, professional and civic accomplishment in 1994. Further, Rountree established the University’s George Rountree, III Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Presently, Rountree is a member of the North Carolina, Arizona and American Bar Associations; proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States; charter member of the Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute, serving as chairman in 1991; and chairman of the Admiralty Rules Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. In June 2004, he was inducted into the North Carolina Bar Association General Practice Hall of Fame.
Rountree resides in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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