The Judicial Inquiry Commission has reviewed your request for an opinion in which you
ask:

“May a district judge who is a properly licensed real estate broker form a
real estate company whereby he is the sponsoring broker for said real
estate company but where the real estate company being formed would
bear no semblance of the name of said sponsoring real estate broker nor
would his name appear in any advertisements, identification cards, etc.;
i.e., said real estate broker would be passively involved in said real estate
company and would not actively solicit business.”