Barbara Goldberg Goldman is a proud founder of and serves as the Chairperson of the Jewish Electorate Institute. In her professional life, Barbara is President of B&G Regal Domestics, Inc., a national employment placement agency, and Managing Partner of Quorum, LLC, a land-use consulting firm specializing in mixed-use and mixed-income developments, and affordable housing.
Barbara served on the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County for thirteen years and was its chair for five of those years. During the Carter Administration, she served at the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Community Planning and Development, where she worked with Congress on housing and economic development policy and programmatic legislative programs and initiatives.
Before working at HUD, she was with the National League of Cities and U.S. Conference of Mayors as the Director of the Washington, D.C. offices for San Jose, California; Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Metropolitan Toledo Consortium. In 1971 she was Legislative Aide for the Honorable Ron Dellums of Oakland, California focusing on prison reform legislation. From 1972 through 1976, she served as Special Assistant to The Honorable Barbara C. Jordan, Congresswoman from Houston Texas for whom she wrote speeches, and social legislation, and managed casework.
Barbara is the founder of the nationally recognized Affordable Housing Conference of Montgomery County (AHCMC), and has served as its Chair and now Co-chair since its inception in 1991. Barbara served on the Executive Committee of the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) from 2004 to 2017. She is one of the four founding Board members of the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) and served as its Vice Chair from 2017 through 2024. She serves on the Board of the Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) organization. Past affiliations also include the Strathmore Hall Foundation Board, Montgomery County’s Community Development Block Grant Advisory Board, Montgomery County’s Charter Review Commission, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington Board (JCCGW), Maccabi USA, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington (JCRC), the Jewish Social Service Agency of Maryland, Washington and Virginia (JSSA), and the American Jewish Committee’s Washington, D.C. Regional Office (AJC) Board of Directors.
Barbara, who holds a Master of Arts degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Maryland, also has served on many affordable housing and related panels and forums throughout the United States.
A graduate of Leadership Montgomery, Barbara is the recipient of several awards and citations including the prized Montgomery County’s 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.
