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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bixby | Frederick Lovell | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Coomaraswamy | Rajhika | 2016 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Van Ness | Stanley C. | 1983 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Anthony | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holderman | Pauline Beatrice | 1965 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holstrom | Carleton A. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| O'Hara | Gene | 2004 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Eckō | Marc | 2009 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burns | Arthur Frank | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Geltman | Samuel | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Volk | Harry Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Aidekman | Alex | 1987 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lewis | Shireen K. | 2012 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Sato | Gordon Hisashi | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Eco | Umberto | 2002 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Voorhees | Ralph W. | 1990 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wolfe | Deborah Cannon Patridge | 1992 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Ellison | Brooke Mackenzie | 2011 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Allen | Clara L. | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| L'Hommedieu | Paige D. | 1967 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Barchi | Robert L. | 2022 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Hottel | Althea Kratz | 1958 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bloom | Benjamin S. | 1975 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Paley | William S. | 1986 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McCormick | Richard L. | 2012 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Elizabeth | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Koeppe | Alfred C. | 2009 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gould | William Benjamin, IV | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schwartz | Anna Jacobson | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws |
