The United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame is a hall of fame that honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the sport of figure skating in the United States. It is managed by the U.S. Figure Skating. To be inducted into it is considered the highest achievement an American figure skater can attain. It was founded in 1976. It is located in the World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. Nominees are formally inducted at an annual ceremony held during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Selection Process Nominations are accepted from both the skating community as well as the general public for four categories: Competitors, Coaches, Non-Athletic Contributors, and Creative Impact Contributors. Competitors must have been retired from skating for at least five years prior to being nominated. The U.S. Hall of Fame Committee puts out a ballet which is voted on by selected, distinguished, electors. Candidates that receive 66% of the votes are inducted.
Inductees Skater Inducted Tenley Albright 1976 Sherwin Badger 1976 Theresa Weld Blanchard 1976 Irving Brokaw 1976 Richard Button 1976 Peggy Fleming 1976 Jackson Haines 1976 Carol Heiss 1976 David Jenkins 1976 Hayes Alan Jenkins 1976 Oscar Johnson 1976 Howard Nicholson 1976 Maribel Vinson Owen 1976 Eddie Shipstad 1976 A. Winsor Weld 1976 Henry M. Beatty 1977 Beatrix Loughran 1977 Heaton R. Robertson 1977 Nathaniel W. Niles 1978 Harold Hartshorne 1981 William O. Hickok IV 1981 George H. Browne 1983 Eugene Turner 1983 F. Ritter Shumway 1986 Scott Hamilton 1990 Tai Babilonia & Randy Gardner 1991 James Grogan 1991 Dorothy Hamill 1991 Karol Kennedy & Peter Kennedy 1991 Ardelle Sanderson 1991 Judy Schwomeyer & James Sladky 1991 Charles Tickner 1991 Lois Waring & Michael McGean 1991 William Thayer Tutt 1991 Yvonne Sherman Tutt 1991 Richard Dywer 1993 Linda Fratianne 1993 Harry N. Keighley 1993 Nancy Ludington Graham & Ronald Ludington 1993 John Nicks 1993 Colleen O’Connor & Jim Millns 1993 Walter S. Powell 1993 Ronnie Robertson 1993 Tim Wood 1993 Carlo Fassi 1994 Janet Lynn 1994 JoJo Starbuck & Kenneth Shelley 1994 Roger F. Turner 1994 Maribel Y. Vinson Owen & George E.B. Hill 1994 Cynthia Kauffman Marshall & Ronald Kauffman 1995 Robin Lee 1995 Roy Shipstad 1995 Judy Blumberg & Michael Seibert 1996 Brian Boitano 1996 Frank Carroll 1996 Joseph L. Serafine 1996 Jane Vaughn Sullivan 1996 Andree Anderson & Donald Jacoby 1997 Joan Tozzer Cave 1997 Mabel Fairbanks 1997 Frederick C. LeFevre 1997 Barbara Roles Williams 1997 Benjamin T. Wright 1997 Tom Collins 1998 Oscar Iobst 1998 Gordon McKellen Jr 1998 Evy Scotvold & Mary Scotvold 1998 Kristi Yamaguchi 1998 Caitlin Carruthers & Peter Carruthers 1999 John Misha Petkevich 1999 Scott Ethan Allen 2000 Gretchen Merrill 2000 Debi Thomas 2000 Frank Zamboni 2000 Gary Visconti 2001 Rosalynn Sumners 2001 Don Laws 2001 Arthur Vaughn 2001 Elizabeth Punsalan & Jerod Swallow 2002 Jill Trenary 2002 Slavka Kohout Button 2002 Margaretta Drake 2002 Skippy Baxter 2003 Chuck Foster 2003 Doug Wilson 2003 Elaine Zayak 2003 Jill Watson & Peter Oppegard 2004 Norma Sahlin & Wally Sahlin 2004 Hugh C. Graham, Jr 2004 Nancy Kerrigan 2004 Mary Louise Wright 2005 Catherine Machado 2005 Tara Lipinski 2006 Charles M. Schulz 2007 Paul Wylie 2007 Janet Gerhauser Carpenter 2007 Charles DeMore 2008 Todd Eldredge 2008 Sonya Klopfer Dunfield 2009 Nancy Meiss 2009 Marjorie Parker Smith 2009 Joseph Savage 2009 Vera Wang 2009 Sarah Hughes 2010 Jenni Meno & Todd Sand 2010 Robert Turk 2010 1961 U.S. World TeamSee Sabena Flight 548 accident. 2011 Michelle Kwan 2012 Rudy Galindo 2013 Lori Nichol 2013 Albert Beard 2014 Lynn Benson 2014 Terry Kubicka 2014 Anne Gerli 2015 Ricki Harris 2015 David Santee 2015 Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto 2016 Sasha Cohen 2016 Gustave F. Lussi 2016 Evan Lysacek 2016 Peter Burrows 2017 Claire Ferguson 2018 Kyoko Ina & John Zimmerman 2018 Sarah Kawahara 2018 Michael Weiss 2018 Carol Fox & Richard Dalley 2019 Timothy Goebel 2019 Julie Lynn Holmes 2019Meryl Davis & Charlie White 2020Kimmie Meissner 2020Kathy Casey 2020Johnny Weir 2021Sandra Lamb 2021Gale Tanger 2021Lucy Brennan 2022Tiffany Chin 2022Vicki Korn 2022Paul E. George 2023Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani 2023Charlie Cyr 2024Christa Fassi 2024Vivian Joseph & Ronald Joseph 2024Albertina Noyes, and 2025Renée Roca 2025Robert Horen 2025Nathan Chen 2026Rafael Arutyunyan 2026Joseph Inman 2026
All entire 1961 U.S. World Team were killed aboard Sabena Flight 548 and were honored posthumously to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of their deaths.
References
External links U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame Members list.