| The Advocates is governed by a 27-member Board of Directors, consisting of community leaders in academia, the arts, business, law, and policy, and providing strategic oversight of financial and programmatic decisions. Following is the current Board Member listing for The Advocates:
Aviva Breen, Chair, Former Executive Director, Minnesota Legislative Commission on the Economic Status of Women
Robert D. Aronson, Aronson & Associates, P.A
Zarina Baber, Target Corporation
C. Christopher Bercaw, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Jacques Boucal, Client Representative
James E. Dorsey, Fredrikson & Byron PA
Meghan M. Elliott, Lindquist & Vennum PLLP
Wood R. Foster Jr., Siegel, Brill, Greupner, Duffy & Foster PA
Sam Hanson, Minnesota Supreme Court
Hon. Hubert H. Humphrey III, Tunheim Partners Company
Sandra B.C. Johnson, American Express Financial Advisors (retired)
Rachel Johnson Hamlin, Attorney and Community Organizer
Marlene Kayser, Community Organizer
Jeffrey Keyes, Briggs & Morgan; attorney
David Kistle, Padilla Speer Beardsley
Mark Lindberg, Otto Bremer Foundation
John P. Mandler, Faegre & Benson LLP
Jim Martineau, Lindquist & Vennum PLLP (retired)
Dipankar Mukherjee, Pangea World Theatre
Dr. David L. Parker, Minnesota Department of Public Health
Jacqueline Regis, The St. Paul Companies
Ellen Sampson, Leonard, Street & Deinard
Irfan Khan Sandozi, M.D., Minnesota Gastroenterology
Nancy Speer, Planned Parenthood of Minnesota/South Dakota
Roberta B. Walburn, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
David S. Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law School
Samuel Kofi Woods II, Foundation for International Dignity | 
