Beauty queen goes wild?

One would like a court judge to be a good judge of people. So, when I read the following Arizona Daily Star story, one question came to mind:

A University of Arizona law school student and beauty queen has been indicted on charges that say she and three others held her former boyfriend captive for 10 hours while torturing and robbing him.

Kumari Fulbright, a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Raner Collins, was indicted Dec. 18 on five felony charges – armed robbery, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

My question is how did Raner Collins rise to be a District Court judge and yet have so little sense that he chose to hire the alleged psycho?

The answer is that Collins, a graduate of Arkansas Polytechnic College, was appointed by Bill Clinton. Judge Collins seems to be best known for repeated attempts to legislate from the bench the details of Arkansas school funding.

Hat tip: Instapundit.