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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Young, Jr. | Andrew J. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norwood | Janet Lippe | 2003 | Doctor of Laws | |
| DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bowen | William Gordon | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Codey | Richard J. | 2005 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Werblin | David A. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Chisholm | Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Frederic William | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ramos-Horta | José | 2000 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws |
