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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws |
