Uncovering the Next Generation's Hall of Fame
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee is made up of a group of music industry experts and insiders, including artists, executives, historians, and journalists. The exact membership of the committee can vary from year to year and is kept confidential by the Hall of Fame. The role of the Nominating Committee is to consider the eligible candidates for the Hall of Fame and to create the ballot of nominees for consideration by the voting body, which is a much larger group of over 1000 industry professionals and living Hall of Famers. The Nominating Committee's selections are based on a number of criteria, including the impact and influence of the artist on music history, as well as their popularity, longevity, and musical innovations.
Because the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame doesn't like to reveal the members of the Nominating Committee to protect its members from lobbying, journalists will often describe the group as "secretive" or "unnamed," even though the many of the members speak openly about their position and lists have been publicly available here for over a decade.
The Rock Hall has come under fire for its lack of women on the Nominating Committee. Historically, only 12% of its members have been women, but the current percentage is around 38% (as of 2024). The lack of female representation in the group that creates the ballot is highly correlated with the low percentage of women inducted into the Hall of Fame. Women members are highlighted in orange in the lists below.
Some of the more prominent artists on the Nominating Committee have joined since 2014, including Questlove, Tom Morello, Dave Grohl, Linda Perry, and Darryl McDaniels.
The Nominating Committee is led by Rick Krim, who took over from Jon Landau after he stepped down as chairman in 2022.
Beginning with the class of 2026, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame instituted term limits for its Nominating Committee members. Any member who served 15 or more years gets removed from the committee. The number of years served by each committee member is noted below, beginning in 2025. Red numbers indicate the final year of service for the committee member. The chairman of the Nominating Committee and the chairman of the Rock Hall Foundation are excluded from the term limit requirement.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, based in New York, is responsible for running the nomination and induction process. The Rock Hall Museum in Cleveland has little influence over the Hall of Famers it displays.
Jump to an induction year to see the committee that created that ballot:
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2025
| Rick Krim, Chairman (17) | Sandy Alouete (9) |
| Cliff Burnstein (14) | Kelly Chappel (2) |
| Leila Cobo (1) | Sheryl Crow (1) |
| Bill Flanagan (32) | David Fricke (27) |
| Elysa Gardner (19) | Holly George-Warren (13) |
| Jody Gerson (5) | Karen Glauber (7) |
| Meg Griffin (13) | Dave Grohl (9) |
| Allison Hagendorf (2) | Greg Harris (12) |
| Jimmy Jam (2) | Tracey Jordan (2) |
| Mike Kaufman (13) | Alan Light (19) |
| Rob Light (25) | Darryl McDaniels (5) |
| Tom Morello (12) | Amanda Petrusich (8) |
| Questlove (12) | Peter Shapiro (2) |
| Danyel Smith (3) | John Sykes (30) |
| Steven Van Zandt (30) |
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| Ahmet Ertegun | Nesuhi Ertegun |
| Suzan Evans, ex officio | John Hammond |
| Bob Hilburn | Bob Krasnow |
| Kurt Loder | Norm N. Nite |
| Nile Rodgers | Seymour Stein |
| Jann Wenner | Jerry Wexler |
| Noreen Woods, ex officio |
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Voting Committee (incomplete list)
The role of the Rock Hall's Voting Committee is to determine which of the nominees get inducted. After the ballot is announced, the Hall of Fame sends out 1000+ ballots to its voters for consideration. Voters are instructed to vote for up to five of the nominees, and no write-in candidates are permitted.
The Voting Committee consists of all living Hall of Famers, members of the Nominating Committee, and several hundred other music industry professionals (journalists, critics, radio personalities, producers, executives, etc.). While there is no official record of the Voting Committee's membership, the list below has been pieced together from publicly available information and represents roughly 2/3 of the group.
If you know of additional voters not listed below, please let us know.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Board of Directors
(2024 edition)
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Board of Directors
(2022 edition)
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation Board of Directors
(2019 edition)
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