Barbara Denise MacLeod, AM (15 February 1929 – 9 January 2000)[1] was an Australian naval officer who served as director of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS).
[3] She was the first woman to attend the Australian Administrative Staff College and, on appointment as Director of Navy Industrial Policy in 1979, became the first woman of captain's rank in the Royal Australian Navy to be appointed to a position typically reserved for a male captain.
[1][4] In 1982 she also became the first Australian woman to serve as aide-de-camp, to Queen Elizabeth II.
[1] MacLeod was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1975, and received the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal.
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