If Garland had just taken the $3.5 million he had in 1995 and stuck the whole thing in the S&P 500, it would have turned into $25 million by now. The secret to that kind of growth could have been as simple as compounding returns. Ten years later, that range had grown to $7.6 million to $28 million. At the start of the period, Garland declared $2.9 million to $6.5 million of assets. Over the years, the fortune swelled, according to financial disclosure reports filed between 20, some of which Forbes obtained through a public-records request and others of which were preserved by Judicial Watch, Fix the Court and the Center for Public Integrity. So as of 1995, much of Garland’s money came from his in-laws. For purposes of net worth calculations, Forbes counts any holdings owned by an official’s spouse or dependent children as belonging to that official, consistent with the way federal ethics laws treat assets. Between 19, Garland’s mother- and father-in-law established three trusts for their heirs, including Lynn Garland, according to the documents. ![]() An attachment showed that those trusts were all from his wife’s family. The largest category was called “trusts,” worth about $910,000. On the 1995 filing, Garland split his holdings into various categories-“cash” amounting to about $520,000, “listed securities” worth $470,000, “real estate” valued at $490,000 and so on. But he also had a robust fortune outside of his day job, with $3.5 million in assets and zero debt. ![]() The filings show that Garland made good money in private practice, $200,000 in 1993, when he worked for nine months at Arnold & Porter. As part of the confirmation process, Garland submitted a handful of documents that, 26 years later, still provide key clues in figuring out his finances. ![]() That September, Bill Clinton nominated Garland to serve as a federal judge.
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