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Clarence Thomas (2024)

Associate justice since Oct. 23, 1991

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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
2024 Horatio Alger Association Honorary board member

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.

No non-investment-income

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
Liberty Consulting Salary and benefits

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.

No reimbursements

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.

No liabilities

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: $2M – $7.3M

  Real estate (68%)
  Retirement fund (18%)
  Life insurance (3%)
  Other (3%)
  Cash account (3%)
  Bond (3%)
  Investment fund (1%)
Name Category Income Amount Income Type Gross Value Amount Gross Value Method
S&P 500 Index account
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Other $5,001 – $15,000 Dividend $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
Liberty Consulting
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Other None $50,001 – $100,000 Book Value
Vanguard Small Cap Value Index Fund Admiral Shares (VSIAX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Retirement Fund $1,001 – $2,500 Dividend $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
Vanguard Value Index Fund Admiral Shares (VVIAX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Retirement Fund $1,001 – $2,500 Dividend $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
Vanguard Wellington Fund Admiral Shares (VWENX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Retirement Fund $1,001 – $2,500 Dividend $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
CenterState Bank CD

FDIC#33555 CPN 1.000% DUE 3/31/25

Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Retirement Fund $0 – $1,000 Interest $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
U.S. Treasury note

CPN 3.125% DUE 8/15/25

Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Bond $2,501 – $5,000 Interest $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
U.S. Treasury note

INFL INDX NOTE CPN 1.25% DTD 4/15/23 FC 10/15/23

Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Bond $0 – $1,000 Interest $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
Mutual of New York account
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Other $1,001 – $2,500 Interest $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares (VEMAX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Retirement Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
Vanguard Health Care Fund Investor Shares (VGHCX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Retirement Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares (VTIAX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Retirement Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
AXA Universal Life policy
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Life Insurance $2,501 – $5,000 Dividend $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
Congressional Federal Credit Union accounts
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Cash Account $0 – $1,000 Interest $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund (VMFXX ) Show Transactions (1) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date Transaction Value Transaction Gain
Buy Feb. 20, 2024 $15,001 – $50,000
Retirement Fund $5,001 – $15,000 Dividend $100,001 – $250,000 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.

2024: Part VII, Line 5: Life insurance policy was inadvertently omitted from prior reports during the covered period. The policy was originally purchased in July 2001 from the Mutual of New York (MONY). MONY is a subsidiary of the Equitable Life Insurance Company and the policy was serviced by Protective Life Insurance Company. The omission was inadvertent and unintentional as filer was not the insured or owner of the policy and confusion arose on whether the policy needed to be disclosed. Filer is disclosing the policy on this report to cover past reports for the covered period rather than amending past reports because filer no longer has documentation for each year for the covered period. Filer terminated the policy in May 2025.

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. Our database also includes eight of Clarence Thomas’ disclosures from 1992 to 1999 provided by Documented. (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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