Sotomayor and Fonda in Women’s Hall

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, actress Jane Fonda and attorney Gloria Allred are among the latest inductees at the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

The Class of 2019 being inducted Saturday into the hall in upstate New York also includes activist Angela Davis, attorney Sarah Deer, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, retired Air Force fighter pilot Nicole Malachowski, the late artist and suffragist Rose O’Neill and the late New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.

Composer Laurie Spiegel is being honored for her electronic music compositions and molecular biologist Flossie WongStaal for work that helped prove HIV is the cause of AIDS.

The hall in the upstate New York town of Seneca Falls, where a landmark U.S. women’s rights convention took place in 1848, doesn’t identify a theme when it calls for nominations, said induction chairwoman Sujatha Ramanujan. But she said sometimes a theme emerges, as it has this year, that reflects the political and social mood of the country.

“It shows up in the nominations because we ask the general public,” Ramanujan said, “and in a time when women are feeling like their voices need to be heard, they’re nominating women whose voices were loud.”

She pointed particularly to Allred and her work as an advocate for women who have been abused and Deer, who is a Native American activist focused on victims’ rights.

All of the living honorees accepted invitations to the induction weekend events.

“I feel this connection, and I always have felt it — even before I knew I was going to be inducted — to the women’s rights pioneers who came before me,” said Allred, who at 78 continues to represent accusers in highprofile sexual misconduct cases including against financier Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.

Fonda’s selection prompted the Seneca Falls town supervisor to threaten to pull funding from the site. Greg Lazzaro wrote in a resolution, which did not pass, that Fonda’s activism during the Vietnam War “brought divisiveness to our country.”

The actress drew bitter criticism after being photographed atop an anti-aircraft gun during a 1972 visit to North Vietnam, a moment she has said she regrets.