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Brett Kavanaugh (2011)

Associate justice since Oct. 6, 2018

← Back to overview View 2011 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
2011 Harvard University Lecturer
2011 American Bar Association Ex officio member
2011 Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court President-elect and then president
2011 Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit Director
2011 Yale University Lecturer
2011 American Law Institute Adviser

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.

Year Organization Terms
2012 Harvard University Teaching in 2013

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
2011 Harvard University $22,512.75 Teaching
2011 Yale University $4,400.00 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.

No spouse-income

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
Dec. 30 – 31, 2011 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Teaching Lodging, Transportation
Dec. 12 – 13, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Teaching Lodging, Transportation
Nov. 28 – 29, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Teaching Lodging, Transportation
Nov. 14 – 15, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Teaching Lodging, Transportation
Oct. 17 – 18, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Teaching Lodging, Transportation
Oct. 3 – 4, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Teaching Lodging, Transportation
Sept. 26 – 27, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Teaching Lodging, Transportation
Sept. 11 – 13, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Teaching Lodging, Transportation
March 31 – April 1, 2011 Yale University New Haven, CT Academic - Other

Speech to students

Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 18 – 20, 2011 Pepperdine University Malibu, CA Speaking

Speak to future federal judicial law clerks for Judicial Clerkship Intstitute

Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 9 – 13, 2011 University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Moot Court

Moot court

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 21 – 22, 2011 Duke University Durham, NC Moot Court

Moot court

Food, Lodging, Transportation
Jan. 3 – 19, 2011 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Teaching Lodging, Transportation
March 27, 2011 Fordham University New York, NY Moot Court

Moot court

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
Bank of America Credit card $0 – $15,000
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Credit card $0 – $15,000
USAA Credit card $0 – $15,000
Thrift Savings Plan Loan $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.

ProPublica has not extracted investments data for 2011. For information about Brett Kavanaugh’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 I Positions (Continued)

Adviser American Law Institute

Part IV Reimbursements (Continued):

Yale Law School March 31-April 1, 2011 New Haven, CT Speech to students Transportation, lodging, meals

Yale Law School September 11-13, 26-27, October 3-4, 17-18, November 14-15, 28-29, December 12-13, 2011 New Haven, CT Teaching Transportation, Lodging

Harvard Law School December 30-31, 2011 Cambridge, MA Teaching Transportation, Lodging

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].

More from Friends of the Court

ProPublica has reported that justices have sometimes failed to disclose speaking engagements and gifts like private jet travel and luxury vacations from wealthy and influential people. Read our series: Friends of the Court.

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