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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Chisholm | Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws |
