Brett Baker is the sixth generation of his family to live and grow up on Sutter Island (in the California Delta). He was raised on his family’s pear orchard and spent much of his youth and early adulthood working in production agriculture.

He received his B.S. degree in Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology from UC Davis where he worked at the John Muir Institute of the Environment under his professor, Dr. Peter Moyle, doing field biology on mountain meadow systems throughout the Northern Sierras. From there, he moved onto the Heritage and Wild Trout program with the then California Department of Fish and Game and continued sampling systems throughout the Sierras and the balance of the State.

Brett was introduced to legislative policymaking while working as an Agricultural and Water Policy analyst for then Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi. Following passage of the 2009 Delta Reform Act, he started Baker Advocacy & Consulting, Inc. and began assisting family, friends, and neighbors in complying with the newly mandated measuring, monitoring, and reporting regulations for surface water diverters in the Legal Delta.

In 2019, Brett became a licensed member of the California State Bar. He currently practices Water Law in Stockton, Californi,a representing the Central Delta Water Agency and various other clients.