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!

Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mary Mahoney
Born 1845
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Henrietta Szold
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Lucille Ball
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Janet Reno
Born 1938
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Winona LaDuke
Born 1959
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Patricia A. Locke
Born 1928
Achievements: Education
2005 Inductee
Amelia Bloomer
Born 1818
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 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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