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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McCormick | Richard L. | 2012 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ebadi | Shirin | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Koeppe | Alfred C. | 2009 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gould | William Benjamin, IV | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | William John | 1995 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Linowitz | Sol M. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McGreevey | James E. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Elizabeth | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws |
