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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hughes | William John | 1995 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McGreevey | James E. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Young, Jr. | Andrew J. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Codey | Richard J. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Chisholm | Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frazier | Kenneth C. | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katyal | Neal | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Long | Virginia | 2013 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws |
