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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boggs | Lindy | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Goheen | Robert Francis | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | Willard Deming | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsumoto | Shigeharu | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lewis | William Arthur | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Young, Jr. | Andrew J. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Codey | Richard J. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McCormick | Richard L. | 2012 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
