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.

Anne Sullivan
Born 1866
Achievements: Education
2003 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Loretta C. Ford
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2011 Inductee
Willa Cather
Born 1873
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Marcia Greenberger
Born 1946
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Serena Williams
Born 1981
Achievements: Athletics, Business
2024 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Gloria Yerkovich
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Antonia Novello
Born 1944
Achievements: Government, Science
1994 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Allie B. Latimer
Born 1931
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 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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