Discover the Women of the Hall

These are the Inductees of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Select any of the women to discover their stories and learn how they have influenced other women and this country.

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Allucquére Rosanne Stone Arts, Education, Humanities 1936 New Jersey 2024

Allucquére Rosanne Stone

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1936 -
Born In: New Jersey
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities

Allucquére Rosanne Stone, also known as Sandy Stone, is an academic, media theorist, artist, audio engineer, and computer programmer. A founder of the academic discipline of transgender studies, Stone’s trailblazing work created space for trans scholars to unfold the vast spectrum of gender.


Anna Wessels Williams Science 1863 New Jersey 2024

Anna Wessels Williams

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1863 - 1954
Born In: New Jersey
Achievements: Science

Dr. Anna Wessels Williams was a pioneer in the field of immunology. She earned her medical degree from the Women’s Medical College in New York before joining the nation’s first municipal diagnostic laboratory at the New York City Department of Health.


Serena Williams Athletics, Business 1981 Michigan 2024

Serena Williams

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1981 -
Born In: Michigan
Achievements: Athletics, Business

Serena Williams is a highly regarded tennis champion, entrepreneur, investor, fashion designer, and executive producer. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times.


Patricia Bath Science 1942 New York 2024

Patricia Bath

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1942 - 2019
Born In: New York
Achievements: Science

Patricia Era Bath was an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic. She was an early pioneer of laser cataract surgery and was the first Black woman physician to receive a medical patent, which she received in 1986, for the Laserphaco Probe and technique, which performed all steps of cataract removal.


Ruby Bridges Humanities 1954 Mississippi 2024

Ruby Bridges

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1954 -
Born In: Mississippi
Achievements: Humanities

Civil Rights icon, activist, author, and speaker, Ruby Bridges stepped into history books in 1960 when at six years old she single-handedly broke down barriers by desegregating the all-white William Frantz Elementary school in New Orleans.


Elouise Cobell Business 1945 Montana 2024

Elouise Cobell

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1945 - 2011
Born In: Montana
Achievements: Business

Known as “Yellow Bird Woman,” Elouise Cobell was an entrepreneur, banker, advocate, and member of the Blackfeet Nation who fought tirelessly for government accountability and for Native Americans to have control over their own financial future.


Kimberlé Crenshaw Education, Humanities 1959 Ohio 2024

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1959 -
Born In: Ohio
Achievements: Education, Humanities

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw is the co-founder and ExecutiveDirector of the African American Policy Forum, a gender and racial justice legal think tank, and the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies at Columbia Law School. She is a trailblazing scholar, advocate, and professor whose ideas have reshaped the landscape of critical race theory and Black feminist legal theory.


Peggy McIntosh Education, Humanities 1934 New York 2024

Peggy McIntosh

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1934 -
Born In: New York
Achievements: Education, Humanities

Peggy McIntosh is renowned as an educational innovator, feminist activist, author, and public speaker. McIntosh derived her understanding of white privilege from observing parallels with male privilege.


Judith Plaskow Education, Humanities 1947 New York 2024

Judith Plaskow

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1947 -
Born In: New York
Achievements: Education, Humanities

In the realm of feminist theology, one of the names that stands out as a pioneering force is Dr. Judith Plaskow. An author and activist, Paskow is a visionary thinker whose intellectual contributions have shaped discourse and enriched our understanding of spirituality, gender, and equality.


Loretta Ross Education, Humanities 1953 Texas 2024

Loretta Ross

Year Honored: 2024
Birth: 1953 -
Born In: Texas
Achievements: Education, Humanities

Loretta J. Ross is a Black academic, feminist, and activist for reproductive justice, especially among women of color. Driven by her personal experiences as a survivor of rape and nonconsensual sterilization, Ross has dedicated her extensive career in academia and activism to reframing reproductive rights within a broader context of human rights.


Emily Howland Humanities 1827 New York 2021

Emily Howland

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1827 - 1929
Born In: New York
Achievements: Humanities

Katherine Johnson Science 1918 West Virginia 2021

Katherine Johnson

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1918 - 2020
Born In: West Virginia
Achievements: Science

Indra Nooyi Business 1955 India 2021

Indra Nooyi

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1955 -
Born In: India
Achievements: Business

Michelle Obama Arts, Humanities 1964 Illinois 2021

Michelle Obama

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1964 -
Born In: Illinois
Achievements: Arts, Humanities

Octavia E. Butler Arts 1947 California 2021

Octavia E. Butler

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1947 - 2006
Born In: California
Achievements: Arts

Judy Chicago Arts 1939 Illinois 2021

Judy Chicago

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1939 -
Born In: Illinois
Achievements: Arts

Rebecca Halstead Government 1959 New York 2021

Rebecca Halstead

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1959 -
Born In: New York
Achievements: Government

Mia Hamm Athletics 1972 Alabama 2021

Mia Hamm

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1972 -
Born In: Alabama
Achievements: Athletics

Joy Harjo Arts 1951 Oklahoma 2021

Joy Harjo

Year Honored: 2021
Birth: 1951 -
Born In: Oklahoma
Achievements: Arts

Henrietta Lacks Science 1920 2020

Henrietta Lacks

Year Honored: 2020
Birth: 1920 - 1951
Achievements: Science

Lacks is best recognized for her immortal HeLa cells, which have been used in research that led to the development of the Polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and contributed to Parkinson’s research.


Toni Morrison Arts, Humanities 1931 2020

Toni Morrison

Year Honored: 2020
Birth: 1931 - 2018
Achievements: Arts, Humanities

An author and book editor who fostered a new generation of Black writers. Morrison has been unapologetic about her focus on Black people’s experiences, and the power with which she has brought this focus.


Barbara Hillary Athletics 1931 2020

Barbara Hillary

Year Honored: 2020
Birth: 1931 - 2019
Achievements: Athletics

The first Black woman to have ever traveled to both the North and South Pole- both after the age of 75. Inspired by her expeditions, Hillary took interest in the effects of climate change on the polar caps and became a fierce advocate for combating climate change.


Barbara Rose Johns Powell Education, Government 1935 2020

Barbara Rose Johns Powell

Year Honored: 2020
Birth: 1935 - 1991
Achievements: Education, Government

A young, civil rights leader, and pioneer. At the age of 16, Powell led a student strike, for equal education, at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia.


Aretha Franklin Arts 1942 2020

Aretha Franklin

Year Honored: 2020
Birth: 1942 - 2018
Achievements: Arts

A singer, songwriter, pianist, actress, and civil rights activist. Her multi-octave vocal range moved millions of people around the world during an expansive career that spanned six decades.

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