Former Deputy Secretary, Department of Education
Mitchell M. Zais
First Trump administration.
- Assets disclosed
- $1.3M to $5.2M
- Outside pay
- Not shown
- Trades disclosed
- 66
- Took office
- May 2018
Assets disclosed: on the 2021 termination filing. The values on Zais’s latest financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics, added up as ranges, because the form gives ranges and never exact values.
Outside pay: shown for the current administration only. What the latest form reports was paid to the official to the dollar, outside the public salary, which is set by law.
Trades disclosed: Mar 2020 to Sep 2020. Transactions on 278-T reports and annual reports, which include a spouse’s and dependent children’s.
Took office: no leaving date on record.
Outside pay is kept for the current administration only. The Office of Government Ethics drops officials from its public portal after they leave, and by law it destroys most reports six years after they are filed. We saved some earlier reports before they went, but no complete set for any earlier administration survives, and a partial record shown as if it were whole would mislead.
Start date: the cabinet record.
Largest holdings
On the 2021 termination filing
- Charles Schwab Managed Account$500K to $1M
- Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, fixed annuity$100K to $250K
- JPMorgan Equity Income Fund Class A Shares (OIEIX)$50K to $100K
- Schwab US Small-Cap ETF (SCHA)$50K to $100K
- OneAmerica, American United Life Insurance Company, whole life$50K to $100K
- Assets listedEach with a value range
- 197
- Without a valueListed with no dollar range
- 8
Trades
Disclosed on periodic and annual reports, by year
All in 2020
66 trades, Mar 2020 to Sep 2020
- Bought80% of trades
- 53
- Sold20% of trades
- 13
51 of the 66 trades with a filing date to check were reported after 45 days plus any extension the filing states.
The executive financial disclosure reports the official’s transactions together with those of a spouse and dependent children, and does not mark which is which. These trades are shown as disclosed. They should not be read as the official personally trading.
What was traded
- Individual stock
24% of trades
16 - Funds and ETFs
74% of trades
49 - Bonds
2% of trades
1
Past the deadline
51
After 45 days plus any extension the filing states
Estimated volume
$66K
The forms give each trade as a range of dollars. This adds the low end of every range, so the real volume is at least this and could be much more.
Net worth
Reported as ranges, so no single net worth
- Disclosed assets
- $1.3M to $5.2M
- Disclosed liabilities
- None disclosed
A net worth for Mitchell M. Zais cannot be computed from this filing: values are given as ranges, some items carry no value, and a home kept for personal use is not reported.
- Disclosed assets:
- as ranges on 197 line items, plus 8 without a dollar value
- Disclosed liabilities:
- none reported on this filing
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
Kept since Aug 28, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2021 termination filing.
Holdings
On the 2021 termination filing, largest range first
- Charles Schwab Managed Account$500K to $1M
- Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, fixed annuity$100K to $250K
- JPMorgan Equity Income Fund Class A Shares (OIEIX)$50K to $100K
- Schwab US Small-Cap ETF (SCHA)
Line 4.22 of the filing
$50K to $100K - OneAmerica, American United Life Insurance Company, whole life$50K to $100K
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
Kept since Aug 28, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2021 termination filing.
Trades
66 disclosed transactions, Mar 2020 to Sep 2020
All in 2020
66 trades, Mar 2020 to Sep 2020
What was traded
- Individual stock
24% of trades
16 - Funds and ETFs
74% of trades
49 - Bonds
2% of trades
1
Past the deadline
51
After 45 days plus any extension the filing states
Estimated volume
$66K
The forms give each trade as a range of dollars. This adds the low end of every range, so the real volume is at least this and could be much more.
Disclosed transactions
Newest first, five a page, each with its filing
Bought unless marked · Unspecified, every row
66 disclosed transactions, as filed on the official’s OGE 278-T. Amounts are ranges, never exact, and every row links to the official filing. A symbol marked with an asterisk was matched from the company name on the filing. The filer did not write a symbol down.
51 of the 66 trades with a filing date to check were reported after 45 days plus any extension the filing states.
The executive financial disclosure reports the official’s transactions together with those of a spouse and dependent children, and does not mark which is which. These trades are shown as disclosed. They should not be read as the official personally trading.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2021 termination filing.