Matt Graham is a native son of the San Fernando Valley. Graham attended Cal State University, Northridge and Loyola University School of Law School before working ten years as a state prosecutor. His improbable rise through the legal ranks to the California Court of Appeal was the product of a work ethic rooted in his upbringing in Van Nuys. By the age of thirty, Graham successfully argued cases as a prosecutor in the United States and California Supreme Court. He presided over hundreds of criminal jury trials between 1985 and 2005. Graham authored over eleven hundred appellate decisions as a justice on the Court of Appeal. Hidden Behind the Robe, Graham’s first novel, is based on stranger than fiction cases and events witnessed during his decorated career.