Yesterday, National Law Journal and Legal Times reporter Zoe Tillman tweeted out quite possibly the greatest factoid ever: One of the newly appointed D.C. Superior Court judges wrote an episode of Family Ties.

Here’s a bit from the bio of the honorable Robert Okun, a Harvard Law School graduate, Runnymede Singers singer and Alex P. Keaton line-writer:

Judge Okun joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in 1989, where he prosecuted a wide variety of felony and misdemeanor cases in both Superior Court and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Okun left the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 1992 to become a freelance writer (having previously written an episode for the television show “Family Ties”), but returned to the practice of law approximately a year later when he joined the Office of Consumer Litigation of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted both civil and criminal violations of various consumer protection statutes.

A quick IMDB search reveals that Okun wrote a 1987 episode of the sitcom called “Miracle In Columbus.” The episode is – how to put this nicely about a man who could put me in jail? – extremely sappy. Alex becomes a mall Santa Claus and meets a young girl who’s sad because her father has to be out of town on business during Christmas. I won’t spoil the episode, but let’s just say Alex meets a very special person who teaches him the real meaning of the holiday. Watch the episode below.