Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Kevin Sloat

No. 87 Kevin Sloat

We said this last year, but it’s so telling we’re gonna repeat the anecdote again: Kevin Sloat has been a lobbyist so long that Assemblymember Alex Lee was only two years old when Sloat first put out his shingle in 1997. Today, Sloat’s lobbying firm, Sloat Higgins Jensen & Associates, is one of the biggest and most successful in the state, with a lobbying staff of six and a wildly diverse group of clients, including (deep breath) Accenture, Anheuser-Busch, the Office of the CSU Chancellor, the California Trucking Association, Chevron, DirecTV, McDonalds, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Netflix, PG&E, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation (owners of Cache Creek Casino Resort west of Sacramento) and the players associations for Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer the NBA, NFL and NHL. So, yeah, he’s kind of a big deal.

Updated Aug. 11, 2026