National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Geraldine Ferraro
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Sarah Winnemucca
Born c.1844
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Barbara McClintock
Born 1902
Achievements: Science
1986 Inductee

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Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

The Hall, in association with the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, was delighted to host a Conversation with Great Women in Sacramento, California. The Conversation featured...

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News & Events

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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Inductee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Published in New York Times

In the spirit of the Hall’s Oral History Project is an essay adapted from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (inducted 2002) forthcoming memoir “My own words.” Her essay offers good reminder of how telling women’s history is American history and how histories, as we honor...

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