After Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993, she decided to wear a French robe d’avocat instead of the traditional American court dress. In later years she replaced the traditional French rabat with more fanciful jabots. She had a collection of lace jabots from around the world and would wear different ones depending on what she was doing in court. She had a black one with gold embroidery and faceted stones for issuing dissents. She had a crocheted yellow and cream with crystals for issuing majority opinions. Her favorite was from South Africa, woven with white beads.

In 1999, after her cancer treatments, she got Bryant Johnson, a former army reservist attached to the special forces, to train her in the Supreme Court gym. She could do 20 pushups in a session before her 80th birthday.

She was born Joan Ruth, but there were several kids by the name of Joan at school, so she went by Ruth. And officially changed it when she got married.

She graduated high school at 15.

She learned Swedish to co-author a book about civil procedure in Sweden.