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!

Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Born 1910
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Nancy Brinker
Born 1946
Achievements: Philanthropy
2015 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Nicole Malachowski
Born 1974
Achievements: Government
2019 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 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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