National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Tenley Albright
Born 1935
Achievements: Athletics, Science
2015 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Susette La Flesche
Born 1854
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 Inductee

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