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!

Mildred Robbins Leet
Born 1922
Achievements: Philanthropy
2003 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Linda G. Alvarado
Born 1951
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Barbara Hillary
Born 1931
Achievements: Athletics
2020 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Dorothea Dix
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Pearl S. Buck
Born 1892
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Aimée Mullins
Born 1976
Achievements: Arts, Athletics, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Born 1921
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Kimberlé Crenshaw
Born 1959
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Coretta Scott King
Born 1927
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Betty Ford
Born 1918
Achievements: Humanities
2013 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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