[2] Leonard had a number of jobs over his 45-year career history, commencing it at Canberra radio station 2CA in 1962, initially as a cadet copywriter[1] and later as an announcer and newsreader.

He was survived by his wife Gwen, children Matthew, Natasha and Nathan and grandchildren, Rachel, Phoebe, Sarah, Madeline, Nicholas and Thomas.

It was announced (at the funeral service) in September 2008 that a journalism scholarship funded by the ACT Government and WIN-TV would be named in his honour.

[7] The Peter Leonard Scholarship aims to recognise the extraordinary talents of some University of Canberra Journalism students each year.

2009 – Lisa Mosley[8] 2010 – Philip Prior[9] 2011 – Gabrielle Adams[10] 2012 – Ashley Leal[11] 2013 – Katarina Slavich[12] 2014 – Alkira Reinfrank 2015 – Alison Hattley 2016 – Naomi Avery 2018 – Lewis Haskew[13] 2019 – Laura Gale 2021 – Brooke Roff[14] 2009 – Andrew Day, Kevin Room and Rahima Saikal[8] 2010 – Ewan Gilbert and Lucy Zelic[9] 2011 – Grace Keyworth and Alana Shegog[10] 2012 – Dion Pretorius and Olivia Neethyrajah[11] 2013 – Charlene Broad[12]