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!

Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Toni Morrison
Born 1931
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2020 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Judy Chicago
Born 1939
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Lillian Wald
Born 1867
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Eleanor Roosevelt
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 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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