Once I had a neighbor who had a sort of middle aged handyman around to do chores and run errands. This handyman was known by everyone as "The Judge". Everyone assumed he was a former judge.
Well it turned out he was a former judge. One day I found out that he had once judged a beauty contest. LOL. But by then everyone knew him as "The Judge", ignorant of how he got his monicker.
We had a former (then retired) judge living next door to us when we bought our house in 1983. He was a drunk. He would show up on our doorstep wanting to be neighborly and chat, but he was so gross we would always do anything we could to say “Bye, we are busy.” The more it kept up, the more curt and rude we got.
Some judge.