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Lucile Lucy Griffin Leonard (1920-2006) of Sanford, North Carolina, served as a hospital dietitian in Africa and Italy while in the United States Army from 1943 to 1945, and later as a dietitian at UNCG and in N.C. public schools. Lucile Lucy Griffin Leonard was born 28 November 1920 and was raised in Sanford, North Carolina. She studied home economics and institution management at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), graduating in 1941. After her graduation, Leonard worked for the Dairy Council in Durham, North Carolina. Leonard enlisted in the army and became a hospital dietitian at Camp Butner, North Carolina, in September 1942. She was commissioned as a second lieutenant in March 1943 and went to training at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. Leonard sailed on the SS Pasteur in September 1943 to the 81st Station Hospital in Bizerte, Tunisia. In 1944, she moved to Naples, Italy, and later to Livorno, Italy.