Jeanne Grushinski Rubin (1918-2015) served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1942 to 1948 and in the United States Navy Reserve Nurse Corps from 1959 to 1978.

Jeanne Grushinski Rubin was born 17 April 1918 in Stirling, New Jersey. She graduated from Morristown High School in 1936, and began classes at Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing in New York in 1937, graduating in 1940.

After the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941, Rubin decided to join the United States Navy Nurse Corps. For six months, beginning in November 1942, she trained at United States Navy Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in May 1943 she was assigned to United States Naval Hospital Pensacola, Florida, where she was commissioned lieutenant junior grade.

In July 1944, Rubin, along with two other navy nurses, was assigned to United States Naval Hospital San Leandro, California, where they were tasked with helping to prepare the hospital for wounded military personnel from the Pacific. Rubin received orders to Fleet Hospital 116 in Okinawa, Japan in March 1946. She remained there until May 1946, when she received another set of orders to United States Navy Dispensary Saipan in the Mariana Islands. Part of her duties included treating wounded United States military, as well as Japanese prisoners of war.

While overseas she was promoted to lieutenant senior grade. In May 1947, Rubin was reassigned to Brooklyn Naval Hospital in New York, where she worked until April 1948 when she married and resign her commission in the Navy Nurse Corps.

She remained a part of the United States Navy Nurse Corps Reserve, and returned to work at Bellevue Hospital as a civilian. Rubin retired from the United States Navy Nurse Corps Reserve in 1978 as a captain. She passed away on 5 November 2015.