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!

Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Rozanne L. Ridgway
Born 1935
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Clare Boothe Luce
Born 1903
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Sylvia A. Earle
Born 1935
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Linda Richards
Born 1841
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Betty Bone Schiess
Born 1923
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Dolores Huerta
Born 1930
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
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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