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.

Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Alice Evans
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Bernice Resnick Sandler
Born 1928
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, MM
Born 1882
Achievements: Humanities
2013 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Engle Pennington
Born 1872
Achievements: Science
2002 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Born 1906
Achievements: Arts, Science
1996 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Alice Hamilton
Born 1869
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Nettie Stevens
Born 1861
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Indra Nooyi
Born 1955
Achievements: Business
2021 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 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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Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

Your donation to the National Women’s Hall of Fame helps preserve and share the legacies of American women whose courage, vision, and leadership have transformed our history. From groundbreaking exhibits to educational programs that empower future generations, your gift fuels our mission to honor the past and light the way forward.

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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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