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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Betancourt | Romulo | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fulbright | James William | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Galbraith | John Kenneth | 1979 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Young, Jr. | Andrew J. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Bernard J. | 1993 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bunting | Mary Ingraham | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Codey | Richard J. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dwyer | Florence Price | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gaskill | William John | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Abdellah | Faye Glenn | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cohen | Wilbur J. | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Black | Eugene Robert | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ebadi | Shirin | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frazier | Kenneth C. | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gellhorn | Walter | 1973 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Adams | Ruth Marie | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katyal | Neal | 2019 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Edelman | Marian Wright | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Long | Virginia | 2013 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alampi | Philip | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Commager | Henry Steele | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| White | Katharine Elkus | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Alexander | Archibald Stevens | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws |
