Club President - Rotary Club of Charlotte Amalie 2001-2002
Diana was born and raised in England and was a banker by profession working for Barclays Bank in England, the Caribbean and New York where she administered the Westchester County branches of the bank. In 1975, Diana took a 12 year sabbatical to raise her children. Diana and her husband, Roger, have lived in the Virgin Islands for 21 years, the last 15 of which they have operated their business support company offering business consulting and bookkeeping services.
Diana's first introduction to Rotary was in 1979 when Roger joined the Rotary Club of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and Diana took part in many of the Rotary activities. Traveling with the bank took them to various parts of the world but there was always a Rotary club, from the Caribbean to the Pacific to Europe. Upon arriving in St. Thomas in 1987, Diana joined the Inner Wheel Club of St. Thomas, served as President in 1990/91and District Vice Chair in 1991/1992. She joined the Rotary Club of Charlotte Amalie in 1994 and was President in 2001/2002.
In February 2004 Diana was appointed Assistant Governor for US Virgin Islands North, a position she held until June 2007. She currently serves as District Training Co-Chair responsible for club-level training. Since her additional appointment as Rotary Leadership Institute Director for District 7020 she has been an active participant in RLI in the US has been largely responsible for bringing the seminars into the District. Diana was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship by the Rotary Club of St. Thomas in 1989, and also by District 7020 in 2007. She is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Charter Member of the District 7020 Paul Harris Society.
Diana and Roger have two children and two grandsons. Their daughter Louise is currently residing in England with her husband, Stefan and their two sons, Theo and Charlie. Son Julian is an engineer working, along with his wife Alex, on private yachts taking them to various places in the world.
