# Joan B. Gottschall > Federal judicial disclosures. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/disclosures/23618 ## Record - **Judge:** Joan B. Gottschall - **Year:** 2005 - **Pages:** 10 ## Text 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 Agreement — 1 — oie a 1 li “he ~N EL) 23 Ca 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 FEDERAL BUILDING, LOCKBOX 33 844 KINO STREET Juoaxg NR. Lanign Anogreow, HI WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 19801 TELEPHONE Jubex Franxiin 8. BILLINGS. JR. COM! (302) 873-8168 Jubex Jonn P. FullaM FYSt 487-0160 MaaisTRaTE HEnrY LL JONES JR Juoek Jonwn B. Jones R. TOWNSEND ROBINSON Juoet NaTuamnizL R. Jonks October 23 1991 COUNSEL Juoeg RostAT C. Jonge FTS: 633-8087 Juoet Hewnay A. PouiTz Juoet Davio Bam Juoet RoseAT M. Taxasue) Juoet Jostkrn L. Tauro Juoex PATMCIA M. WALD Juoet Miran H. Wane Juoag James BD Lan Jubatr Warter K, 974rLETON CratAMaAN 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 --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/disclosures/23618. Public record. Not legal advice.