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
Elaine Roulet
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Laurie Spiegel
Born 1945
Achievements: Arts
2019 Inductee
Susan Solomon
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Georgia O'Keeffe
Born 1887
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Edith Wharton
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 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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