In 1958, he moved to Odessa in Ector County in West Texas to enter the oil and natural gas business with his brother-in-law, Morris Ford "Jake" Lawless (1903-1986).
In 1962, Juedeman was credited with exerting a major role in the election of Ed Foreman to Texas's 16th congressional district, the lines of which then stretched from El Paso to the Permian Basin.