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
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Victoria Woodhull
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Born 1887
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Abby Kelley Foster
Born 1811
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 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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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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