Even though Fort Worth trades on its cowboy heritage, good luck finding anyone in that metropolis who knows how to rope a calf. Yet if a stampede ever broke out downtown, one person who’d know what to do is a bespectacled judge who sits in the city’s federal courthouse.

“My family was a ranching family and I was raised on a ranch until we could come to town so I could go to school,” says U.S. District Judge Terry Means. “We gathered cattle and branded cattle and did everything a rancher does. And I participated in kid rodeos. And I only got bucked off of one bull. But I only rode one bull.”

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