Clara Leach Adams-Ender
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Brigadier General Clara Adams-Ender
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| Birth name | Clara Leach |
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July 11, 1939 Willow Springs, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1961–1993 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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| Other work | Management Consultant |
Clara Leach Adams-Ender (born July 11, 1939) is a retired US Army officer who was Chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps from September 1987 to August 1991. She was the first woman to receive her master's degree in military arts and sciences from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. She is also the first African-American nurse corps officer to graduate from the United States Army War College. When she retired, in 1993, she was serving as commanding officer of Fort Belvoir.
Clara Leach Adams-Ender was born in Willow Spring, North Carolina in 1939. She had nine siblings. Her mother was named Caretha Bell Sapp Leach. Her father, Otha Leach, was a sharecropper and the family lived in Wake County, North Carolina on a tobacco farm. Adams-Ender attended high school at Fuquay Springs Consolidated High School. She graduated when she was sixteen. She was second in her class. She went to college at North Carolina A&T State University. While there, she was a participant in the Greensboro sit-ins.
Adams-Ender joined the United States Army in order to pay for her nursing school education. When she graduated, in 1961, she was named second lieutenant for the United States Army Nurse Corps.
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