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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Galbraith | John Kenneth | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Bernard J. | 1993 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gaskill | William John | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cohen | Wilbur J. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ebadi | Shirin | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws |
