<Li> Developing training and education programs for use by executive branch ethics officials and employees; </Li> <Li> Ensuring that individual agency ethics programs are functioning properly by setting the requirements for them, supporting them, and reviewing them . </Li> <P> The Director of OGE is appointed by the President after confirmation by the U.S. Senate . The Director of OGE serves a five - year term, thereby overlapping presidential terms, and is subject to no term limit . The rest of the OGE employees are career civil servants . Created by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, OGE separated from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in 1989 pursuant to reform legislation . </P> <P> The acting Director of OGE is currently David J. Apol, formerly the general counsel of the OGE . He replaced Walter Shaub, who was appointed by President Obama in 2013, and resigned on July 19, 2017. . </P>

Who appoints the director of the office of government ethics