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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gaskill | William John | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cohen | Wilbur J. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ebadi | Shirin | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitman | Christine Todd | 1994 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norwood | Janet Lippe | 2003 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws |
