Elizabeth Sherman Leite started Scottsdale Culinary Institute in 1986.
The college is owned by Career Education Corporation under a licensing agreement with Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
The institute was located in a former country club on a golf course and lakefront overlooking Camelback Mountain.
It was founded by Elizabeth Leite in 1986 and under Jon-Paul Hutchins, more than one hundred thousand students went through the program in twenty five years and earned associates or bachelor's degrees.
It closed in 2017 along with the remaining Cordon Bleu schools in the United States.