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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Roberts | Dorothy | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Chisholm | Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Elizabeth | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitman | Christine Todd | 1994 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schwartz | Anna Jacobson | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wayne | Edward Anthony | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ribicoff | Abraham | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Scott | Hugh | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Galbraith | John Kenneth | 1979 | Doctor of Laws |
