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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cahill | William T. | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gordon | Lincoln | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Corzine | Jon S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hufstedler | Shirley M. | 1981 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Knowles | Francis | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Whitman | Christine Todd | 1994 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Joseph Egan | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Koeppe | Alfred C. | 2009 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gould | William Benjamin, IV | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | Richard Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martinez | Judy Perry | 2020 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Linowitz | Sol M. | 1977 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hughes | William John | 1995 | Doctor of Laws | |
| McGreevey | James E. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Udall | Stewart Lee | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Williams, Jr. | Harrison Arlington | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ruttan | Vernon Wesley | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norton | Eleanor Holmes | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Bryan A. | 2015 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sirleaf | Ellen Johnson | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gregorian | Vartan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ryan | Arthur F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Humphrey | Hubert H. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Norwood | Janet Lippe | 2003 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gross | Mason Welch | 1971 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | Blenda Jacqueline | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | 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 | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Howard Anthony | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Randolph | Asa Philip | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hall | Frederick Wilson | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws |
