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.

Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Alice Waters
Born 1944
Achievements: Business, Education, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Alice Paul
Born 1885
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Althea Gibson
Born 1927
Achievements: Athletics
2001 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Mary Cassatt
Born 1844
Achievements: Arts
1973 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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