Diana Day

As assistant general counsel of Sempra Energy, Diana Day has managerial responsibility over the company’s financial transactions and project development. And when Day is done overseeing as many as 20 people in the corporate law department, she goes home to oversee a household with six children.

The chaos is tamed by practical fixes such as making sure work and schools are close to the family home in Point Loma, and one very helpful husband, Bob Ivanjack, who manages marketing for Kit Young Cards, a high-end sports memorabilia company.

Day has been with Sempra since 1997 and was promoted to her current position in 2003, the same year she was honored with YWCA TWIN recognition.

Day was previously a corporate attorney with the San Diego office of Latham & Watkins. She has a bachelor’s in economics from Washington State University and a law degree from the University of Virginia.

In addition to her work and home duties, Day volunteers regularly in the classrooms of St. Charles Borromeo Academy in Point Loma, where her children – Emily, 11, Anna, 9, Madeline, 8, and Mary Margaret, 6 — attend school. The two youngest, Katie, 4, and Anthony, 1, are in preschool. Day also has served on a variety of nonprofit boards, including the American Corporate Counsel Association, the San Diego Volunteer Lawyers Program and the Girl Scouts of America San Diego-Imperial Council.

Her family enjoys the outdoors, playing tennis, surfing and camping. Day says they’ve started a tradition of camping with extended family at the same campground she frequented as a child in central Washington state.

Day and her husband were high school sweethearts in Seattle, and moved to San Diego after law school. They wanted to live in the West and decided San Diego was the most like Seattle only with a lot more sun. “We decided it was a great place to live and raise a family,” says Day.

— Catherine Hochmuth