NSA Hall of Honor facts for kids

The Wall at the 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.

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.

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.

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. Buffman
• 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