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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norwood | Janet Lippe | 2003 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws |
