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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Murphy | Philip | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Roberts | Dorothy | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitehead | John C. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitman | Christine Todd | 1994 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | August | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Quarles | Benjamin | 1976 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Ackerman | Raymond | 2016 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hannah-Jones | Nikole | 2022 | Doctor of Letters |
