Joan B. Gottschall

Vanguard Wellesley Fund — Int/Div

Vanguard Index Trust — Int/Div

Vanguard Prime Portfolio — Int/Div

Van Kampen Emerging Growth Fund — None

Eaton Vance Muni Bond Fund — Int/Div

7. US Treasury Strip (11-15-09) — None

Fed Empl Credit Union Accts — Interest

IBM common stock — Int/Div

Sr.Hi Inc Port. — Int/Div

Viacom c/stock Class A — Int/Div

Viacom c/stock Class B — Int/Div

Munder Net Net Fund (now Internet Fund) — None

Time Wamer c¢/stock — Int/Div

Intel c/stock — Int/Div

Waste Management c/stock — Int/Div

Vanguard Tax-Managed Growth & Income Fund — Int/Div

Flextronics ¢/stock — None

Hewlett-Packard c/stock — Int/Div

Caremark c/stock — None

Dycom c/stock — None

MVSN c/stock — None

MFS Mid-Cap Growth Fund B — None

Putnam New Value Fund — Int/Div

MFS Utilities Fund — Int/Div

MFS Govt Securities Fund — Int/Div

MFS Value Fund B — Int/Div

MFS Large Cap Growth (name change: Core Growth) — None

Vanguard Capital Opportunity Fund — Int/Div

MFS Government Mortgage Fund (name change: MFS Govt Sec B) — Int/Div

Morgan Stanley (MS) US Govt Sec Fund — Int/Div

ML Large Cap Value (name change: Mercury Large Cap Value) — Int/Div

Member, Visiting Committee to the Divinity School, University of Chicago

Member, Board of Directors, Illinois Humanities Council

Member, Board of Directors, Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School

Chair, District Selection Committee, The Rhodes Trust

Member, Board of Directors, Foundation for Law and Science Centers

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Reimbursement — Illinois Humanites Council — Springfield, IL, 9/29-9/30, attendance at Illinois Humanities Council board meeting (meals, lodging)

Reimbursement — Yale University — New Haven, Conn., 9/15-9/16, speaker at Sarah Smith Memorial Conference (air fare, ground transportation, meals, lodging)

Reimbursement — Benzie Area Women's History Project — Crystal Mountain, MI, 3/18-3/20, conference speaker (air fare, meals, lodging)

Income — See Section VIII, note 1 — $0.00

Spouse's income — Reduced annual dues for judges — Union League Club of Chicago

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The Honorable Jean B.

2ottsrhall

United States District Court

219 South Dearborn Street

Chicago,

Illinois

60604

Re

Docket No

828

Dear Judge Gottschall

In 1986

1987

and 1988 you,

along with

ed

roofread a manuscript on a non-legal subject written by

The manuscript was published as a book by

e book is selling well enough to produce income for

pu

er,

author,

and editors.

who reside in Canada

—

have proposed formation of a partnership under Canadian laws whose

assets will be all the rights to the book.

The partners will be

and you

After the partnership is

orme

will

in turn,

be dissolved and the assets transferred

to a Canadian corporation whose shareholders will be the partners

of the dissolved partnership

After the partnership 1s formed

your sole role will be to serve as a shareholder.

As a sharehold-

er,

you will share in proceeds arising from the sales of the book

and the use of the rights to the book

You ask whether you may

participate

in

this

without trancgressing either the

Code of Conduct for United States Judges or the Ethics Reform Act

of 1989

The receipt of income from writing or editing a book is

permitted under the Code of Conduct

Canon 5A says

"A judge may

write

[a]

on non-legal subjects."

The Committee believes that

are

activities

editing and proofreading

covered by the word

"writing."

And the Committee has approved

at least implicitly,

the receipt of 1ncome from writing

Advisory Opinion No

55

There are restrictions on the manner in which a judge's name may b:

used in the promotion of a book, but, we assume, these restrictions

are not likely to be involved in your case since you are not the

author and your name 1s unlikely to be used in connection with

selling of the book

Nor is there anything about the nature of the