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!

Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Ruth Colvin
Born 1916
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Chien-Shiung Wu
Born 1912
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee

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Bayer Offers Tribute to Dr. Blackwell

By Hobart and William Smith Colleges on May 7th, 2018 Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer joined a panel of distinguished speakers for the unveiling of the historic plaque marking the hospital...

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Hall Mourns Bernice “Bunny” Sandler

Bernice Resnick Sandler Dr. Bernice “Bunny” Sandler, the “Godmother of Title IX,” died peacefully at her home in Washington, DC, on Saturday January 5, 2019. She was 90. A high-spirited and highly effective advocate for women’s equality for more than 50 years, Dr....

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