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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Long | Virginia | 2013 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Murphy | Philip | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Roberts | Dorothy | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McCormick | Richard L. | 2012 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitman | Christine Todd | 1994 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Koeppe | Alfred C. | 2009 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gould | William Benjamin, IV | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | William John | 1995 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Linowitz | Sol M. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McGreevey | James E. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
