Fairest on the federal bench Afterthought led Judge Moody to the law By Michael Haddigan July 26, 2002 As a college student in the 1950s, U.S. District Judge Jim Moody looked forward to a career in engineering and work in the oil industry of his native El Dorado. Those were days when many young men saw a future full of formulas and equations, he said. "I graduated from high school about the time of the Sputnik crisis so everyone was slated to be an engineer when they left high school," he said. "My father worked in an oil refinery so...