HALL OF FAME
1998
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.