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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weaver | Robert Clifton | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Seaborg | Glenn T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stillman | W. Paul | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weintraub | Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Holt | Rush | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Muskie | Edmund Sixtus | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Perkins | James A. | 1963 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Suzman | The Honorable Helen | 1992 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodriguez | Joseph H. | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | 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 | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Piñon | Nélida | 1998 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Franklin | John Hope | 1990 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hinojosa | Maria | 2022 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Pinsky | Robert | 2000 | Doctor of Letters |
