Gifted flights, conference expenses and stock holdings in major corporations are among the things Texas Supreme Court justices disclosed on personal financial statement forms filed last year.
Texas is one of 24 states where such judicial financial data is not published online, and so The Texas Lawbook filed an open records request for the forms in May. Four of the justices requested extensions. The Lawbook obtained the rest of the forms in July.
The justices are required to submit financial disclosure forms each year — if they don’t, they may face disciplinary action. The purpose of the forms is, in part, to ensure the justices recuse themselves from cases where they have a financial conflict of interest.
The Lawbook’s examination of the 244 pages detailing the finances of the court’s nine sitting justices did not reveal any unaddressed conflicts. Here is what the disclosures revealed.
Gifts
Only two of justices reported accepted gifts.
Justice Jane Bland received a one-way flight to Salt Lake City and a round-trip flight to Asheville from Sarah and Doug Foshee. Doug is the CEO and founder of Sallyport Investment. The couple were top contributors during Justice Bland’s 2020 campaign, donating $10,000. Neither Sarah nor Doug have been parties in a case before the court.
Justice Evan Young accepted gifts of parking from the city of Austin and travel with his wife from her employer, Haliburton Co.
Payments/Reimbursements
Justices also list reimbursements and payments received under the honorarium exception, which is a safe harbor for travel and speaking engagements related to their work. Five justices reported a total of $37,080.28 in reimbursements.
Justice Young reported $1,620.83 for the Texas Center for the Judiciary, $5,112.62 for the Federalist Society, $2,000 for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, $1,161.01 for Dispatch Media, Inc., and $686.85 for the State Bar of Texas.
Justice Kyle Hawkins reported $1,500 for Alliance Defending Freedom.
Justice Bland reported $1,734.74 for a U.S. Fifth Circuit Conference and $4,551.73 for the Rodel Institute.
Justice Brett Busby reported $341.88 for the State Bar of Texas, $287.19 for the Texas Board of Law Examiners, $2,300 for the American Law Institute, $587.82 for the National Conference of Bar Examiners, and $1,326.64 for the Texas Center for the Judiciary.
Justice Debra Lehrmann reported $6,842.85 for the State Bar of Texas, $636.08 for the Texas Center for the Judiciary, $4,055.65 for the Comptroller of Public Accounts, and $2,922.21 for the Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws.
Stocks
Only two justices reported owning stocks.
Justice Lehrmann reported having between 100 and 499 shares of ExxonMobil stock.
Due to the conflict, Justice Lehrmann did not participate in petitions the natural gas company had before the court in 2024 and 2025.
The company has an oral argument before the justices in October.
Justice Rebeca Aizpuru Huddle has fewer than 100 shares of stock in Microsoft Corp. The technology company didn’t have any petitions before the court in 2025.
