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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Chisholm | Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws |
