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Clara Adams-Ender
Army Commendation Medal
Other workManagement consultant

Clara Adams-Ender (

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, in Fairfax County, Virginia
. After retirement, in 2001 she published a memoir, My Rise to the Stars: How a Sharecropper's Daughter Became an Army General.

Early life and education

Clara Leach was born in

historically black university. While there, she was a participant in the Greensboro sit-ins.[2]

Leach joined the

nursing school education. When she graduated, in 1961, she was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army Nurse Corps.[2]

Military career

After graduation Leach worked at

divorced five years later and she kept her married name.[2]

Adams taught at

Fort George G. Meade in 1974. The following year she attended the United States Army Command and General Staff College, graduating in 1976. She was the first woman to graduate from the college with a degree in military arts and sciences.[2] After graduation, Adams-Ender started working as a hospital inspector at United States Army Health Services Command post at Fort Sam Houston
.

In 1978 she was posted to Frankfurt, Germany, where she started as assistant chief at the Department of Nursing at the 97th General Hospital. She had advanced to chief when she left the hospital in 1981. She was promoted to colonel that year. Also in 1981, she married Heinz Ender. Completing her tour in Germany, she returned to the United States.[2]

Known from her marriage as Adams-Ender, she conducted extensive nursing recruitment to the Army.

African American nurse corps student to graduate from the college. She left Fort Sheridan in 1984.[2] Aside from recruitment, she also was active in seeking increased wages for nurses.[1]

In 1991, Adams-Ender was selected as Commanding General,

Military District of Washington until her retirement in 1993.[4]

After retirement

Adams-Ender retired from the army in 1993 and started a consulting company.[2] She is the former president of Caring About People With Enthusiasm.[1] In 2001 she published a memoir: My Rise to the Stars: How a Sharecropper's Daughter Became an Army General.

Personal life

Adams-Ender is a Catholic convert.[citation needed]

Honors

In 1996, she was named one of

Army Commendation Medal
.

Adams-Ender also received the Roy Wilkins Meritorious Service Award and the Gertrude E. Rush Award for Leadership.[1] In 2019, she was inducted as a member of the United States Army Women's Hall of Fame.[5]

Adams-Ender is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

References

Citations
  1. ^ a b c d e f "Clara Adams-Ender". MilitaryMakers. History Makers. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Clara Adams-Enders Papers". The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project. University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
  3. ^ "Brigadier General Clara Adms-Ender". Biographies. North Carolina Nursing History. 3 May 2011. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  4. ^ "Gen. Clara Adams-Ender's Biography".
  5. ^ "2019 Hall of Fame Inductees – Army Women's Foundation".
Bibliography
  • Adams-Enders, Clara Leach. My Rise to the Stars: How a Sharecropper's Daughter Became an Army General. Lake Ridge: Cape Associates (2001).
    ISBN 0970940106

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