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Sonia Sotomayor (2023)

Associate justice since Aug. 8, 2009

← 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 iCivics Governing director

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
Dec. 20, 2023 Penguin Random House $39,079.59 Royalties

Book royalties

May 10, 2023 Penguin Random House $47,704.63 Royalties

Book royalties

Feb. 27, 2023 Fred Rogers Productions $1,879.16 Other

Payment for voice performance in “Alma’s Way” animated television episode

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
Nov. 13 – 15, 2023 Harvard University Cambridge, MA Moot Court

Judged Ames Moot Court final competition and visited with students

Food, Lodging, Transportation
June 30 – July 2, 2023 Dwight D. Opperman Foundation Los Angeles, CA Ceremony

Presentation of the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award

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.

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
Wells Fargo 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.

All Investment Holdings: $1.7M – $6.8M

  Real estate (77%)
  Investment fund (10%)
  Cash account (8%)
  Retirement fund (5%)
  Stock (<1%)
Name Category Income Amount Income Type Gross Value Amount Gross Value Method
Rental property in New York, NY

Appraised 2021

Transaction Type Transaction Date
Real Estate $5,001 – $15,000 Rent $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 Appraisal
Citibank accounts
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Cash Account $0 – $1,000 Interest $250,001 – $500,000 Cash Market
Morgan Stanley Bank IRA
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Retirement Fund $0 – $1,000 Interest $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
Rental property in Margate, FL
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Real Estate $5,001 – $15,000 Rent $100,001 – $250,000 Other
SPDR Nuveen Bloomberg Municipal Bond ETF (TFI ) Show Transactions (1) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Buy (add'l) June 9, 2023
Investment Fund $2,501 – $5,000 Dividend $100,001 – $250,000 Cash Market
SPDR Nuveen Bloomberg Short Term Municipal Bond ETF (SHM )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $50,001 – $100,000 Cash Market
BlackRock Global Allocation Fund, Inc. Investor A Shares (MDLOX )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Retirement Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
PIMCO Unconstrained Bond Fund
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Retirement Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF ) Show Transactions (1) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Buy (add'l) Sept. 22, 2023
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF (IWD )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
iShares 20 Plus Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT ) Show Transactions (4) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Buy (add'l) April 17, 2023
Buy (add'l) May 18, 2023
Buy (add'l) June 19, 2023
Buy (add'l) Oct. 9, 2023
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF (JPST ) Show Transactions (1) Hide Transactions
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Buy (add'l) June 9, 2023
Investment Fund $0 – $1,000 Dividend $15,001 – $50,000 Cash Market
Morgan Stanley Bank
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Cash Account $0 – $1,000 Interest $0 – $15,000 Cash Market
Principal (PFG )
Transaction Type Transaction Date
Stock $0 – $1,000 Dividend $0 – $15,000 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 III - All amounts listed are net of literary agent's commission. All dates provided are dates of checks forwarded by literary agent.

Part III - A - Items 2, 3 - Publisher royalities for Turning Pages and Just Ask!. Penguin Random House has advised me that it made no disbursements in 2023 to promote the sale of books of mine it has published.

Part VII -Item 8 - (Margate, FL) Personal residence converted to rental in 2023. Value based on Zillow Group, Inc., 2023 valuation.

Part VII - Item 9 - Asset acquired through an inheritance.

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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