JOHN THOMAS MADDEN received his undergraduate degree in political science, cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2003, and his law degree from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 2008 where he was a staff member of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review and the recipient of the First Honors Award in Islamic Law.  He served a judicial externship to the Honorable Sheri Bluebond, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California, in Fall 2007.  Mr. Madden is a member of Orange County Bankruptcy Forum, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the Orange County Bar Association.