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Amy Coney Barrett (2023)

Associate justice since Oct. 27, 2020

← Back to overview View 2023 Disclosure PDF

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
2023 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
2023 University of Notre Dame $14,947.50 Teaching

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
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.

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Date Source Location Purpose Items Paid or Provided
Sept. 23 – 24, 2023 Thomas More Society Austin, TX Speaking

Diocesan Red Mass & Dinner address

Food, Lodging, Transportation
April 7 – 13, 2023 University of Notre Dame London, United Kingdom Teaching

Law school seminar teaching

Food, Lodging, Transportation
April 1 – 2, 2023 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Speaking

Alumni conference address

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 7, 2023 University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN Moot Court

Moot court

Food, Transportation
Oct. 16, 2023 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN Speaking

Robert A. Stein ’61 Lecture

Food, 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.

No gifts

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 $15,001 – $50,000
█████████ College tuition $15,001 – $50,000
Fidelity Credit card $15,001 – $50,000

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.

All Investment Holdings: $2.1M – $8.5M

  Retirement fund (69%)
  Investment fund (25%)
  Money market fund (3%)
  Cash account (2%)
  Unknown (<1%)
  Life insurance (<1%)
Name Category Income Amount Income Type Gross Value Amount Gross Value Method
Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Fund (VFORX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Retirement Fund $15,001 – $50,000 Dividend $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 Cash Market
Fidelity 500 Index Fund (FXAIX ) Show Transactions (1) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Open Oct. 11, 2023
Investment Fund $1,001 – $2,500 Dividend $250,001 – $500,000 Cash Market
Fidelity Money Market Fund (SPRXX ) Show Transactions (4) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Buy (add'l) July 19, 2023
Buy (add'l) Aug. 2, 2023
Distributed Oct. 11, 2023
Buy Oct. 27, 2023
Money Market Fund $2,501 – $5,000 Int./Div. $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
Fidelity Money Market Fund (SPRXX ) Show Transactions (1) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Open Oct. 11, 2023
Investment Fund $1,001 – $2,500 Dividend $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
Fidelity Trend Fund (FTRNX ) Show Transactions (1) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Open Oct. 11, 2023
Investment Fund $5,001 – $15,000 Dividend $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
CollegeChoice 529 (IN) Vanguard US Equity Index Portfolio
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund None $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
Wells Fargo cash account
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Cash Account None $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
American Funds New Perspective Fund Class F-2 (ANWFX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Retirement Fund $2,501 – $5,000 Dividend $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
Fidelity cash holding account
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Cash Account $2,501 – $5,000 Interest $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
American Funds AMCAP Fund Class F-2 (AMCFX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
American Funds Tax-Exempt Bond Fund Class F2 (TEAFX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
Capital Group Global Growth Equity ETF (CGGO )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
Davis Select Worldwide ETF (DWLD )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
Goldman Sachs Dynamic Municipal Income Fund Institutional Class (GSMTX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
American Funds New Perspective Fund Class F-3 (FNPFX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market

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 VII

Lines 43, 49, 75, 88, and 92: The Fidelity Cash Holding Account and Securian Brokerage Money Market Accounts are holding accounts for cash in the accounts.

Lines 108, 118, 127, 131, 134, 137, 139, 141, 143, 145, and 147: The 403(b) account, the Indiana and Virginia 529 accounts, and the ABLE account provide the market value of the investment vehicles in the accounts.

Lines 9, 12, and 30: Fidelity Trend Fund, Fidelity Money Market Fund (SPRXX), and Fidelity 500 Index Fund were transferred in kind from Brokerage Account #1 to Brokerage Account #2 Lines 69-71 on October 11, 2023.

Assets from Indiana 529 Plan #1 (lines 114-117) were transferred to Indiana 529 Plan #2 Line 119 and Line 123 on January 3, 2023.

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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