Corbin Day

Horace Corbin Day (born 1937 in Orange, New Jersey; died January 10, 2021 in Birmingham) was an executive for Goldman Sachs & Co. and chair of the Jemison Investment Company.

Day grew up in New Jersey and attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut before earning a bachelor's degree in classics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He went on to complete a business degree at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Day joined Goldman Sachs in the 1960s and was promoted to partner. He founded the company's mergers and acquisitions department in 1971. In 1974 he moved to London, England to establish an office there as managing director. He retired from the company in 1986 and moved to Short Hills, New Jersey with his wife, Dorothy Jemison "Dodie" Day. A year later, the couple relocated to Birmingham so that Corbin could assume leadership of the Jemison Investment Company from her father, John Jemison Jr. After Dodie's death he was remarried, to the former Kim Morgan.

Day served on the boards of directors of the Altec Industries, Blount International, Protective Life Corporation and others. He was involved in supporting numerous arts, cultural and educational organizations in Birmingham, including the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Alys Stephens Center, Birmingham Museum of Art, Hugh Kaul Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Birmingham-Southern College, UAB and Southern Research.

Day died in January 2021. He was survived by his wife and two children, Horace Jr and Clementine.

References

• "H. Corbin Day" obituary (January 15, 2021) The Birmingham News