Sonia Sotomayor (2014)

Associate justice since Aug. 8, 2009

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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.

No positions

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.

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.

Date	Source	Location	Purpose	Items Paid or Provided
Oct. 24 – 26, 2014	National Association of Women Judges	San Diego, CA	Speaking Speech and participation in organization’s annual conference	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Oct. 17 – 18, 2014	University of San Diego	San Diego, CA	Speaking Conversation with Judge Margaret McKeown and audience Q&A discussion	Food
Sept. 9 – 11, 2014	The University of Tulsa	Tulsa, OK	Speaking Speech and audience question and answer discussion at law school	Food, Lodging, Transportation
July 7 – 11, 2014	New York University	Florence, Italy	Conference/Symposium Participation in Law School Innovative Law and Policy Conference	Food, Lodging, Transportation
May 9 – 13, 2014	American Academy in Berlin	Berlin, DE	Speaking Speech in capacity as a Lloyd Cutler Distinguished Visitor and participate in panel	Food, Lodging, Transportation
March 11 – 12, 2014	Multnomah Public Library	Portland, OR	Speaking Informal remarks	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 21 – 22, 2014	Princeton University	Princeton, NJ	Ceremony Acceptance of Woodrow Wilson Award	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 5 – 6, 2014	New Hampshire Public Radio	Portsmouth, NH	Speaking Conversation with Virginia Prescott and audience question and answer discussion	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 4 – 5, 2014	University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh, PA	Speaking Conversation with university chancellor Mark Nordingberg and audience Q&A	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Feb. 2 – 4, 2014	Yale University	New Haven, CT	Speaking Delivery of James A. Thomas Lecture	Food, Lodging, Transportation
Dec. 17, 2014	New York County Lawyers Association	New York, NY	Speaking Remarks at celebration of 225th anniversary of Southern District of New York court	Food, Transportation
Dec. 17, 2014	New York County Lawyers Association	New York, NY	Speaking Remarks at celebration of 225th anniversary of Southern District of New York court	Food, Transportation
Sept. 18, 2014	Fordham University	New York, NY	Ceremony Participation in dedication of new school of law building	Food, Transportation
June 6, 2014	Women’s Forum of New York	New York, NY	Speaking Conversation with Edie Weiner and audience question and answer discussion	Food, Transportation
May 17, 2014	Fordham University	Bronx, NY	Ceremony Acceptance of honorary degree	Transportation
April 10, 2014	Seton Hall University	Newark, NJ	Moot Court Judging law school moot court final competition	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
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	Mortgage Rental property, New York, NY	$250,001 – $500,000

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 2014. For information about Sonia Sotomayor’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.

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Part III - As I received no "Non-Investment Income” in 2014, Part 111 is marked "None", I have been advised by the Knopf Doubleday Group, publisher of my memoir, "My Beloved World", that it disbursed $25,999.00 during 2014 to promote the sale of the memoir.

-Part IV, Item 5. The cost of transportation for this event was shared by The University of Washington, where I participated in an eveat the previous day.

-Part IV, Item 8. During my visit to Berlin, I participated in certain media interviews and promotional events arranged by the publisher of the German language edition of "My Beloved World"

-Part IV, Items 13 and 14. The cost of transportation for these events was shared by San Jose State University, where I participated in an event held on October 20 and 21, 2014.

- Part V, Gifts - During 2014 many people sent me gifts of books, art, jewelry and memorabilia. I have no reason to believe that any of those items exceeded the $375.00 limit. If I should learn otherwise, I will amend this form.

-Part VII, Item 1. Income and value in the account has fallen below level requiring reporting.

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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