Former first lady Michelle Obama is set to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame this year.
“Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most influential and iconic women of the 21st century,” the National Women’s Hall of Fame said in a statement. “The National Women’s Hall of Fame will celebrate the inclusion of these extraordinary women into the Hall at the biennial in-person induction ceremony on October 2, 2021.”
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Obama will be joined by eight other women, including former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, legendary women’s soccer player Mia Hamm, career servicemember Rebecca Halstead, poet Joy Harjo, and artist Judy Chicago. The late NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and the late author Octavia Butler will also be honored.
Also included in the list is activist Emily Howland, famed for teaching freed slaves how to read and write at refugee camps set up during the Civil War. Howland died in 1929.
Obama joins former first ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Abigail Adams, Betty Ford, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter, and Hillary Clinton as members of the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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Organization leaders said they are closely monitoring the current COVID-19 situation as they plan the in-person portion of the induction ceremony. Tickets to the event are expected to go on sale in April or May, with a virtual event being held online that will be free to the public.
