There will always be a need for more women in law, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t about to let Brett Kavanaugh’s three-ring circus of a confirmation get in the way of recognizing it. The Supreme Court justice and feminist heroine offered a small but significant bit of praise for her fellow justice on Friday night, noting the beer-loving Trump nominee “made history by bringing on board an all-female law clerk crew.”

Ginsburg was delivering prepared remarks to a conference for judges in New York on Friday night, and addressed the prospect of equal gender representation in the legal sphere. “Justice Kavanaugh made history by bringing on board an all-female law clerk crew,” Ginsburg noted, in reference to a promise Kavanaugh made during his tumultuous confirmation. “Thanks to his selections, the Court has this Term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks.”

All the same, Ginsburg was quick to note further progress was needed. “Women did not fare nearly as well as advocates,” she added. “Only about 21% of the attorneys presenting oral argument this Term were female; of the thirty-four attorneys who appeared more than once, only six were women.”

Kavanaugh first made his promise to hire an all-women law-clerk staff during his September 2018 confirmation, a process that brought to light accusations from California professor Christine Blasey Ford that he’d held her down on a bed and groped her during a party in the 1980s. Kavanaugh famously denied the accusation, along with further allegations of misconduct from Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick. After a contentious nomination process, the Senate voted to confirm Kavanaugh, 50-48.

Ginsburg’s remarks also displayed a bit more grace than Kavanaugh himself, who—during his hearing—refused to condemn President Trump’s tweets that Ginsburg’s “mind was shot.”