The Hall of Honor is a memorial at the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. It honors individuals who rendered distinguished service to American cryptology.
Criteria The Hall of Honor is located on the grounds of the National Cryptologic Museum adjacent to NSA's headquarters in Ft. Meade, MD. Created in 1999, The standards are high for induction into the Hall of Honor. The individuals honored were innovators over their entire peers or made major contributions to the structure and processes of American cryptology.
Inductees Yearly, the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation recommends a slate of honorees to the National Security Agency for consideration along with nominees from other sources.
2023 Evelyn Akeley James Lovell Major General Joseph Mauborgne James Radford Harry Rashbaum
2022 Eunice Russel Willson Rice Youn P. (YP) Kim Richard "Dickie" George Robert Orestes Ferner
2021 Joseph E. Gilligan, Jr. Jack C. Mortick Clifford Cocks, James H. Ellis, and Malcolm J. Williamson
2020 George Cotter Whitfield Diffie David Kahn (writer) Barbara McNamara Lester Myers
2019 Edward M. Drake Chief Radioman Harry Kidder, USN Colonel Alva Bryan Lasswell, USMC Lieutenant General Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF
2018 Richard L. "Dick" Bernard Seymour R. Cray Michael J. Jacobs Hilda Faust Mathieu Whitney E. Reed
2017 Mary H. "Polly" Budenbach Dennis M. Chiari Colonel Frank E. Herrelko, USAF Admiral Bobby Inman, USN Floyd L. Weakley
2016 Gerald Hale Captain Leonard T. Jones, USCG Command Sergeant Major Odell Williams, USA
2015 Ralph W. Adams, Jr. Charles R. Lord William O. Marks Robert J. McNelis Virginia Jenkins Riley
2014 Frank C. Austin Walter Deeley Howard Ehret Marian Rejewski Alan Turing
2013 Vera Ruth Filby Richard Proto Washington Wong Native American Code talkers
2012 Ann Caracristi Robert E. Drake Ronald Hunt Juliana Mickwitz
2011 William D. Coffee Joseph Desch Colonel Parker Hitt Laura Holmes
2010 Joseph Amato David Boak Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein Leo Rosen
2009 Richard A. Day Jr. Minnie M. Kenny Major general Doyle E. Larson Arthur Levenson
2008 Benson K. Buffham Charles L. Gandy General Alfred M. Gray Oliver R. Kirby Rear Admiral Donald M. Showers
2007 Jacob "Jack" Gurin Robert J. Hermann Samuel Simon Snyder Milton Zaslow
2006 Brigadier General Bernard Ardisana Edward A. Everett Cecil J. Phillips James W. Pryde Thomas E. Tremain
2005 William Blankinship Francis Raven Arthur J. Salemme Rear Admiral Joseph N. Wenger
2004 Dorothy T. Blum James R. Chiles Meredith Gardner Brigadier General John Tiltman
2003 Lambros D. Callimahos Lowell K. Frazer Juanita Moody Howard E. Rosenblum
2002 Captain Thomas H. Dyer Norman Wild Richard A. Leibler Mitford M. Mathews Charles C. Tevis Julia Ward
2001 Howard C. Barlow Mahlon E. Doyle Sydney Jaffe Major General John E. Morrison
2000 Louis W. Tordella Captain Joseph Rochefort Agnes Meyer Driscoll
1999 William F. Friedman Elizebeth Friedman Herbert Yardley Captain Laurance Safford Frank Rowlett Abraham Sinkov Solomon Kullback Lieutenant General Ralph Canine
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See also National Security Agency/Central Security Service Cryptologic Memorial CIA Memorial Wall Military Intelligence Hall of Fame National Security Agency National Cryptologic Museum