Career

McLeod has written for New Zealand"s major publications, including North & South, the Dominion, Sunday Star-Times, and the Listener. McLeod has been a judge of the MovieFest competition since its inception in 2003. In February 2012, McLeod was heavily criticized, and her suitability for publishing questioned, after she used her column in the Dominion Post to insist a transgender man is still a woman.

Achievements

• McLeod was devisor and principal writer of iconic television soap Gloss, which won the award for best television drama in 1989. Her book, Thrift to Fantasy: Home textile crafts of the 1930s-1950s won a Montana Book Award in 2006.

Membership

From 1995 to 2000, she was a member of the Broadcasting Standards Authority.