Horsing around

Executive: Jenifer Schembri, a lawyer at Blalock Walters PA in Sarasota who specializes in tax law.

Diversion: Showing appaloosa horses. Member of the family that owns Char-O-Lot Ranch in Myakka City, which breeds, shows and trains appaloosa horses

Family footsteps: Schembri has been riding horses her whole life and grew up in Myakka City from the age of 5 at the family's 50-acre ranch. “When we moved here, it was a field of palmetto bushes that we had to burn off,” she says.