Amy Coney Barrett (2018)

Associate justice since Oct. 27, 2020

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Positions

Positions are those where a justice was an officer, director, trustee, partner, proprietor, representative, employee or consultant for any organization other than the U.S. government at the time the disclosure was filed.

Report Year	Organization	Title
2018	University of Notre Dame	Adjunct professor

Agreements

Agreements include any agreements into which a justice has entered, such as employment contracts, continuing payments from former employers and continuing participation in employee welfare or benefit plans maintained by a former employer.

No agreements

Noninvestment income

Noninvestment income includes compensation from jobs the justice has had, such as teaching roles; jobs at law firms before they were judges; pension benefits; and royalties for intellectual property, such as books and copyrights.

Date/Year	Organization Name	Amount	Purpose
2018	University of Notre Dame	$28,264.45	Salary “My 2018 outside earned income was $214.45 over the statutory limit. The overage occurred because of my participation in the University of Notre Dame’s continuing education program for alumni. I delivered three lectures that I thought were uncompensated. When I discovered that I had been paid (by direct deposit) and that the amount caused me to exceed the limit. I returned the excess $214.45 to the University of Notre Dame.”

Spousal income

Spousal income includes earned income from jobs a justice’s spouse has held, as well as honoraria. Justices are required to report a spouse’s income that exceeded $1,000 but are not required to disclose specific amounts.

Source	Description	Amount
University of Notre Dame	Salary
SouthBank Legal	Salary

Travel Reimbursements

Reimbursements include any payment or thing of value received to cover travel-related expenses for justices and their families. They can include expenses that the third party paid directly or for which a justice paid upfront and was reimbursed, but justices are not required to report reimbursements’ dollar values. Show more.

Date	Source	Location	Purpose	Items Paid or Provided
Nov. 29 – 30, 2018	The Federalist Society	New Haven, CT	Academic - Other Yale Law School, educational	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Nov. 14 – 18, 2018	The Federalist Society	Washington, DC	Conference/Symposium Federalist Society Lawyers Convention	Food, Lodging, Registration, Transportation
Oct. 18 – 19, 2018	University of Notre Dame	Savannah, GA	Speaking Hesburgh Lecture, educational	Food, Lodging, Registration, Transportation
Oct. 12 – 14, 2018	St. Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Dallas	Dallas, TX	Speaking Catholic Bar Association General Assembly keynote address	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Oct. 3 – 4, 2018	George Mason University	Arlington, VA and Washington, DC	Ceremony Scalia tribute	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Sept. 26 – 28, 2018	The Federalist Society	Palo Alto, CA	Speaking Stanford Law School educational activity	Food, Lodging, Transportation
June 2 – 5, 2018	University of Notre Dame	Seattle, WA	Speaking Hesburgh Lecture, educational	Food, Lodging, Transportation
April 4 – 7, 2018	University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley, CA	Conference/Symposium UC Berkeley Law Conference: Habeus in Wartime	Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 19 – 20, 2018	Harvard University	Boston, MA	Moot Court Ames Moot Court Competition	Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 17 – 18, 2018	The Federalist Society	Hillsdale, MI	Speaking Hillsdale College, educational	Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 12 – 13, 2018	Northwestern University	Chicago, IL	Teaching Law class talk	Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 9 – 11, 2018	The Federalist Society	Washington, DC	Conference/Symposium National Student Symposium	Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 5 – 6, 2018	The Federalist Society	New York, NY	Speaking Columbia Law School, educational	Food, Lodging, Transportation

Gifts

Gifts include gifts received by justices, their spouses or their dependent children from any source other than a relative. Justices are only required to disclose gifts whose aggregate value from the same source exceeds a certain threshold ($480 in 2023) within the reporting period and gifts that are individually worth more than 40% of that threshold. This only captures gifts that have been disclosed, which ProPublica reporting shows can be incomplete. Show more.

Source	Description	Value
University of Notre Dame	Judicial robe and shipping	$570.27
University of Notre Dame	Catering, flowers and parking for investiture ceremony	$23,793.44

Liabilities

Liabilities include debts that exceeded $10,000 at any time during the reporting period for justices, their spouses or their dependent children. Because justices have to report these each year, some debts may show up multiple times in the table. Show more.

Creditor	Description	Value
█████████	Tuition agreement	$0 – $15,000
█████████	Tuition agreement	$0 – $15,000

Investments

Investments include cash accounts, property, stocks, investment funds, retirement plans and other financial instruments owned by justices, their spouses and dependent children in excess of certain value thresholds or generating more than $200 in income in a year. Justices are not required to disclose information about their personal residences unless they generate rental income.

ProPublica has not extracted investments data for 2018. For information about Amy Coney Barrett’s investments, view the filing.

Additional Information or Explanations

Additional information or explanations include a justice’s explanatory comments clarifying other portions of the report. These may include explanations of apparent inconsistencies with previous reports, third-party opinions on possible conflicts of interest or other supporting documentation.

Part III

Line 1: My 2018 outside eared income was $214.45 over the statutory limit. The overage occurred because of my participation in the University of Notre Dame's continuing education program for alumni. I delivered three lectures that I thought were uncompensated. When I discovered that I had been paid (by direct deposit) and that the amount caused me to exceed the limit. I returned the excess $214.45 to the University of Notre Dame.

Part VII

Line 1: Flagstar acquired the Wells Fargo bank branches containing the Cash Accounts.

Line 2: My spouse rents out our residence for a limited number of nights per year. The value in Column C is the estimated value of the residence. There is an outstanding mortgage on the residence that is not listed in Part VI because it is the primary residence. The income from the rentals does not cover mortgage payments and upkeep costs.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Com (formerly listed on line 7) and Harbor International Fund (formerly listed on line 55) were sold after the end of the Nomination FDR dated 1/1/2016-4/25/2017 and before the beginning of the current Annual FDR covering 1/1/18-12/31/18.

Lines 11, 34, 48, and 52: The Securian Brokerage Money Market Accounts are holding accounts for cash in the accounts.

Lines 54 and 56: Dismond Hill Long-Short Fund Class 1 (line 54) and Fidelity Adv International Growth fund (line 56) were bought after the Nomination FDR and before the current Annual FDR covering 2018.

Lines 28, 42, and 67: Rowe T. Price Blue Chip Growth Blue Chip GW 1 (TBCIX) had a class conversion to T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth (TRBCX).

Lines 71, 77, 84 and 88: The 403(b) account, the 529 accounts, and the ABLE account provide the market value of the investment vehicles in the accounts,

About The Data

The bulk of the data we used came from the Free Law Project, which maintains a database of more than 35,000 financial disclosure records for federal judges, justices and magistrates, most of it dating back to 2003. These disclosures, which federal employees are required to file each year under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, are maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The law, however, requires most of them to be destroyed after six years, making many disclosures from earlier years hard to find. Our disclosures cover most of those filed since 2003, as well as some financial information disclosed by some justices during their Senate confirmations in 1990, 1991 and 2000. (Do you have information about a Supreme Court justice’s finances from before 2003? Email us.)

Because much of the data was extracted from PDFs using optical character recognition, we designed our own database and imported and cleaned the Free Law Project’s data to fix scanning and other errors. We corrected spelling errors, edited fields for style and clarity and, where possible, attempted to add contextual information by, for example, categorizing organizations and transactions, standardizing certain fields, updating entity names or filling in missing information.

In some cases, such as when the Free Law Project did not have a specific disclosure or had not extracted data from a report, we extracted or transcribed the data manually.

After cleaning and standardizing the data, we spot-checked it for accuracy, looking primarily for transcription or categorization errors. If you believe you see an error in the database, please contact us at [email protected].

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