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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Allen | Robert E. | 1989 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Seabrook | Charles Franklin | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Byrne, Jr. | John Joseph | 1985 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Robeson | Paul | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Anderson | Adrienne Scotchbrook | 1991 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Murphy | William Beverly | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Levine | William | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hoffman | Samuel David | 1957 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Boehm | Helen F. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Coomaraswamy | Rajhika | 2016 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rockoff | Alvin J. | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Strickland, Jr. | William E. | 1999 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Calderón | Sila M. | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Weisenfeld | Allan | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Myers | Chauncie Kilmer | 1962 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holstrom | Carleton A. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sullivan | Leon | 2000 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Shireen K. | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sellars | Richard Beverland | 1977 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Fair | Ethel Marion | 1959 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wolfe | Deborah Cannon Patridge | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Booher | Edward Elsworth | 1979 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Roebling | Mary Gindhart | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Crew | Spencer R. | 2002 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Felmly | Lloyd McPherson | 1956 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Rogosin | Israel | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Baez | Joan C. | 1980 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Barchi | Robert L. | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Shalala | Donna E. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
