NAMES IN THE NEWS : 4 Women Hall of Fame Nominees

Tennis star Billie Jean King and politician Barbara Jordan will be two of the next four members of the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

The four were chosen from a field of about 1,000 nominees, Sally Parr, the hall’s executive director, said Wednesday.

The four are: Margaret Bourke-White, the late photojournalist who worked for Life and Fortune magazines; King, who was ranked the No. 1 women’s tennis player four times in her career and is the first woman athlete to earn more than $100,000 in a year; Florence Siebert, a medical researcher who in the 1930s isolated and purified protein, paving the way for an accurate test for tuberculosis, and Jordan, a Texas Democrat who served in Congress from 1972 through 1978. She was the first woman and the first black to give the keynote address at a national political convention.

The four will be inducted into the hall in Seneca Falls, N.Y., on Aug. 26.