NSA Hall of Honor

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.^[1]

The Wall at the NSA Hall of Honor

The Hall of Honor

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

2023

• Evelyn Akeley
• James Lovell
• Major General Joseph Mauborgne
• James Radford
• Harry Rashbaum^[4]

2022

• Eunice Russel Willson Rice
• Youn P. (YP) Kim
• Richard "Dickie" George
• Robert Orestes Ferner^[5]

2021

• Joseph E. Gilligan, Jr.
• Jack C. Mortick
• Clifford Cocks, James H. Ellis, and Malcolm J. Williamson^[6]

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^[7]

2018

• Richard L. "Dick" Bernard
• Seymour R. Cray
• Michael J. Jacobs
• Hilda Faust Mathieu
• Whitney E. Reed^[8]

2017

• Mary H. "Polly" Budenbach
• Dennis M. Chiari
• Colonel Frank E. Herrelko, USAF
• Admiral Bobby Inman, USN
• Floyd L. Weakley^[9]

2016

• Gerald Hale
• Captain Leonard T. Jones, USCG
• Command Sergeant Major Odell Williams, USA^[10]

2015

• Ralph W. Adams, Jr.
• Charles R. Lord
• William O. Marks
• Robert J. McNelis
• Virginia Jenkins Riley^[11]

2014

• Frank C. Austin
• Walter Deeley
• Howard Ehret
• Marian Rejewski
• Alan Turing^[12]

2013

• Vera Ruth Filby
• Richard Proto
• Washington Wong
• Native American Code talkers^[13]

2012

• Ann Caracristi
• Robert E. Drake
• Ronald Hunt
• Juliana Mickwitz^[14]

2011

• William D. Coffee
• Joseph Desch
• Colonel Parker Hitt
• Laura Holmes^[15]

2010

• Joseph Amato
• David Boak
• Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein
• Leo Rosen^[16]

2009

• Richard A. Day Jr.
• Minnie M. Kenny
• Major general Doyle E. Larson
• Arthur Levenson^[17]

2008

• Benson K. Buffman
• Charles L. Gandy
• General Alfred M. Gray
• Oliver R. Kirby
• Rear Admiral Donald M. Showers^[18]

2007

• Jacob "Jack" Gurin
• Robert J. Hermann
• Samuel Simon Snyder^[2]
• Milton Zaslow^[19]

2006

• Brigadier General Bernard Ardisana
• Edward A. Everett
• Cecil J. Phillips
• James W. Pryde
• Thomas E. Tremain^[20]

2005

• William Blankinship
• Francis Raven
• Arthur J. Salemme
• Rear Admiral Joseph N. Wenger^[21]

2004

• Dorothy T. Blum
• James R. Chiles
• Meredith Gardner
• Brigadier General John Tiltman^[22]

2003

• Lambros D. Callimahos
• Lowell K. Frazer
• Juanita Moody
• Howard E. Rosenblum^[23]

2002

• Captain Thomas H. Dyer
• Norman Wild
• Richard A. Leibler
• Mitford M. Mathews
• Charles C. Tevis
• Julia Ward^[24]

2001

• Howard C. Barlow
• Mahlon E. Doyle
• Sydney Jaffe
• Major General John E. Morrison^[25]

2000

• Louis W. Tordella
• Captain Joseph Rochefort
• Agnes Meyer Driscoll^[26]

1999

• William F. Friedman
• Elizebeth Friedman
• Herbert Yardley
• Captain Laurance Safford
• Frank Rowlett
• Abraham Sinkov
• Solomon Kullback
• Lieutenant General Ralph Canine^[27]

References

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3. "national cryptologic museum foundation Resources and Information". nationalcryptologicmuseumfoundation.com. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
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8. Blinde, Loren (December 17, 2018). "NSA announces 5 new Hall of Honor inductees". Intelligence Community News. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
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12. "Five Cryptologists Added to NSA/CSS Cryptologic Hall of Honor". Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: National Security Agency. October 22, 2014. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
13. "Hall of Honor Inductees: 2013". Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: National Security Agency. November 13, 2013. Archived from the original on September 18, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
14. "NSA/CSS Inducts Four Cryptologic Heroes Into Cryptologic Hall of Honor". Fort George G. Meade, Maryland: National Security Agency. September 13, 2012. Archived from the original on February 19, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
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19. "Hall of Honor Inductees 2007 - NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. January 15, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
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21. "Hall of Honor Inductees 2005 - NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. January 15, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
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23. "Hall of Honor Inductees 2003 - NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. January 15, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
24. "Hall of Honor Inductees 2002 - NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. January 15, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
25. "Hall of Honor Inductees 2001 - NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. January 15, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
26. "Hall of Honor Inductees 2000 - NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. January 15, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
27. "Hall of Honor Inductees 1999 - NSA/CSS". Nsa.gov. January 15, 2009. Retrieved November 27, 2016.

See also

• National Security Agency/Central Security Service Cryptologic Memorial
• CIA Memorial Wall
• Military Intelligence Hall of Fame
• National Security Agency
• National Cryptologic Museum

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