HALL OF
FAME 1998
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Steven J. Day
is President and CEO of City National Bank and
City Holding Company in Charleston, West
Virginia. Under his leadership, City has grown
since 1982 from one bank of les s than $100
million in assets to a $1.5 billion bank holding
company operating 47 offices with 900 employees
in West Virginia and six offices located in
southern California employing 275 people. Day
earned a B.B.A. degree in Marketing from Marshall
University in 1975. His career started at Valley
National Bank where he eventually headed up the
bank's operations and data processing. He
temporarily left the banking business in 1980 and
he and two partners began a custom framing
business, still operating as Gallery Two in
Huntington. Day is currently the director of the
West Virginia Bankers Association, Big Green
Foundation, West Virginia Consumer Credit
Counseling Association, The Revolving Loan Fund
for Persons with Disabilities and a member of the
West Virginia Roundtable and the Marshall
University Alumni Association. He has served as
vice chairman of the Boy Scouts and was former
president of the Kanawha Association of Business
People. He is former director of the Charleston
Chamber of Commerce, Than ks a Million
Foundation, Salvation Army, Charleston
Renaissance Corporation, the Business Industrial
Development Corporation, Charleston East
Community Development Corporation and the West
Virginia Literacy Council. He has been recognized
by Bankers Monthly as one of the
youngest CEO's in the country. Day and his wife,
Debbie Williams, reside in Teays Valley with
their 15-year old son. |
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