Judge Ron Enns of the 69th District Court in Dumas was motivated early in life to get an education and enter the legal profession. He grew up on a farm in Dalhart, where hard, manual labor was a fact of life. Enns helped his father build fences, weld metal, irrigate the fields, milk cows and feed livestock.

“Every time I complained about working too hard, my dad said, ‘If you go get an education, you can make a better living and not work so hard,’ ” Enns remembers.