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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Butler | Richard | 2001 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Murphy | Philip | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Connor | John Thomas | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Byrne | Brendan T. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Roberts | Dorothy | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cortés, Jr. | Ernesto J. | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | 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 | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitman | Christine Todd | 1994 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Boyd | Julian Parks | 1956 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ackerman | Raymond | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hannah-Jones | Nikole | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of Letters |
