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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bongiovanni | Michael | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moyers | Bill | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Rodino, Jr. | Peter Wallace | 1975 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Moses | Robert Parris | 2021 | 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 | |
| Weisskopf | Victor Frederick | 1983 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nader | Ralph | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jones | Lewis Webster | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Peterson | Martha Elizabeth | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cox | Archibald | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Higginbotham, Jr. | A. Leon | 1969 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Nagle | Claire Waller | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cullman | Howard Stix | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Fenster | Saul K. | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cardoso | Fernando Enrique | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marshall | Ray | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Judson | Margaret Atwood | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Thant | U | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ferguson, Jr. | Clarence Clyde | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hirschman | Albert O. | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Shapiro | Harold T. | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Morse | David Abner | 1957 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Katzenbach | Nicholas deBelleville | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Gidney | Ray Millard | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bragg | Floyd Herman | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Finletter | Thomas Knight | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Neuberger | Maurine Brown | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martin, Jr. | William McChesney | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Martindell | Anne Clark | 1984 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kean | Thomas H. | 1982 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Davis | Jess Harrison | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Case | Clifford Phillip | 1955 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Sills | Arthur J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Kennan | George F. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dean | Arthur Hobson | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ginsburg | Ruth Bader | 1991 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hoover, Jr. | Herbert | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Matsepe-Casaburri | Ivy F. | 2008 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Simon | William E. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yasuhiro | Nakasone | 1988 | Doctor of Laws |
