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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McGreevey | James E. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Young, Jr. | Andrew J. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norwood | Janet Lippe | 2003 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Codey | Richard J. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frazier | Kenneth C. | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katyal | Neal | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Long | Virginia | 2013 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Murphy | Philip | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cunningham | John T. | 1974 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mailer | Norman | 1969 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Mitchell | Eleanor | 1968 | Doctor of Letters |
