Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name | Year |
Degree |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Linowitz | Sol M. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | William John | 1995 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McGreevey | James E. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Elizabeth | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schwartz | Anna Jacobson | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
