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!

Frances Wisebart Jacobs
Born 1843
Achievements: Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Emily Blackwell
Born 1826
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
St. Katharine Drexel
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 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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