McLeod, Jonnie H., 1923-2011

Greeson, Jennifer

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1993-07-06

1 audio file (56:11) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (16 pages)

sound recording-nonmusical

spoken word

eng

Jonnie McLeod was a 69-year-old woman at the time of interview. She was born in Lucedale, Mississippi in 1923. She was educated at Newcomb College and Tulane University School of Medicine, and was employed as a pediatrician, sex educator, substance abuse rehabilitator, and college instructor.

In this interview, Dr. Jonnie McLeod discusses her forty-year long career as a physician and as a central figure in Charlotte's medical community. She discusses the role her gender has played in her education and career, including the sexism she has faced over the years. She also explains the importance of female professional mentors, and how supportive her husband has been of her career. Dr. McLeod explains how she came to develop the sex education program for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system in the 1960s and discusses the resistance to the program by certain organizations in the city. Her work with the school system lead to her involvement in the early 1970s with the treatment and prevention of substance abuse in young people, an issue to which Dr. McLeod would devote her future career. She describes the development of Charlotte's first drug treatment center, Open House (later called the McLeod Addictive Disease Center). She discusses her ongoing work at the time of interview including chairing the Impaired Physicians Committee, and AIDS education and outreach. Dr. McLeod concludes by discussing challenges facing the medical community such as substance abuse by doctors and the obstructive effect insurance companies can have on providing treatment for substance abuse.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.

College teachers
Drug abuse counselors
Pediatricians
Sex educators

McLeod, Jonnie H., 1923-2011

McLeod Addictive Disease Center
Substance Abuse Prevention Services of the Carolinas

Pediatricians
Women physicians
Sex instruction for youth
Drug addicts--Rehabilitation
Substance abuse--Treatment
AIDS (Disease)

North Carolina--Charlotte
Mississippi--Lucedale

Interviews
Oral histories

1920-2000

Levine Museum of the New South

Professional Women

Living Charlotte : the postwar development of a New South city

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