Barry S. Brokaw is the President of Sacramento Advocates, having previously served from 1973 through 1992 as a committee consultant and Chief of Staff in the California Legislature.

Sacramento Advocates, established in 1990, currently represents at the State Capitol many of the most widely recognized corporate clients and organizations in America.

Barry Brokaw provides personal representation for the American Red Cross, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, Wal-Mart, The Irvine Company, Western Union, Teva Pharmaceuticals, the Association of Talent Agents, the Asphalt Pavement Association of CA, the Yorba Linda Water District, Paramount Petroleum, County Elections Officials, the California Academy of Audiologists, the Solar Alliance, and on a voluntary basis, the D.A.R.E. America program.

Barry Brokaw began his career in the State Capitol as an assistant consultant to the Senate Public Employment and Retirement Committee, before going to work for Assemblyman and later Senator, Dan Boatwright, a Democrat from the suburban San Francisco Bay Area County of Contra Costa. For nearly 18 years, Barry Brokaw served as a committee consultant and chief of staff for Boatwright, overseeing the operations of the Revenue and Taxation Committees in both houses of the Legislature; the Ways and Means Committee; the Senate Appropriations Committee; Senate Budget Subcommittees and the Senate Business and Professions Committee and its Subcommittee on Sports.

The Los Angeles Daily News, in a 1990 newspaper article, said Barry Brokaw wields "immense political clout" as one of "the most powerful people in state government."

The California Political Almanac has called Barry Brokaw "one of the savviest operators inside the (State Capitol) building."

Barry Brokaw is a native of Los Angeles, and worked his way through college, graduating cum laude from California State University, Northridge with a B.A. in Political Science. He earned an M.A. Degree in Government from California State University, Sacramento. He was introduced to state government by a college professor, the legendary former Assembly Speaker, and later, State Treasurer, Jesse M. Unruh, on whose staff he served.

Barry Brokaw served as Vice-Chairman and Public Policy Committee Chairman on the Board of Directors of the national Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Alliance from 1990-2001.

He is married to Karen Zeller Brokaw and they have two children, Brian and Nick.