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!

Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Anne Dallas Dudley
Born 1876
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
Born 1774
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Born 1850
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Peggy McIntosh
Born 1934
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Susan B. Anthony
Born 1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Mary Church Terrell
Born 1863
Achievements: Government
2020 Inductee
Katherine Siva Saubel
Born 1920
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Edwards Walker
Born 1832
Achievements: Philanthropy, Science
2000 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Elizabeth Hanford Dole
Born 1936
Achievements: Government, Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Emily Howland
Born 1827
Achievements: Humanities
2021 Inductee
Bessie Smith
Born c.1894
Achievements: Arts
1984 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
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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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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