Brigadier General Leanne van den Hoek (born 21 August 1958 in Rotterdam) is an officer of the Royal Netherlands Army.

[3] Van den Hoek originally wanted to be a police officer, which was her childhood dream.

[3] Van den Hoek enrolled in the Koninklijke Militaire Academie at Breda as an officer cadet in 1979.

Van den Hoek set a first on 17 July 2001 when she became the first female battalion commander in the Royal Netherlands Army.

This made General Van den Hoek the first female flag officer of the Dutch military.