Dr. Leggett has lived on the Eastside for 26 years. She trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington and has served on the faculty of the University of Washington Division of General Internal Medicine from 1990 through 2013.

Named a Seattle Met Magazine Top Doctor in 2011 and 2014, Dr. Leggett has worked at Overlake in the Senior Health Clinic and has been the director of the Harborview Urgent Care Clinic and cared for the indigent at the Pioneer Square Clinic at Harborview for many years.

Dr. Leggett was a gubernatorial-appointed member of the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission for six years, working to assure high quality physician care in the state. She has taught clinical medicine at Stanford University and the University of New Mexico.  

Dr. Leggett has three adult children and one granddaughter. She is married to longtime Overlake cardiologist Dr. James Leggett.