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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacKay | Kenneth Campbell | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Obama | Barack H. | 2016 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Cavazos | Lauro F. | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smith | Margaret Chase | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dees, Jr. | Morris S. | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Heckel | Charles Willard | 1970 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brennan, Jr. | William Joseph | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Florio | James J. | 1990 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smithers | Robert Brinkley | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Smyth | Henry DeWolf | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dickerson | Donald MacMillan | 1989 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Foster | William Chapman | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobs | Nathan Leonard | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Waldheim | Kurt | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Woodward | C. Vann | 1988 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brooks-Randolph | Angie | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mahoney | Sister Hildegarde Marie | 1967 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schettino | C. Thomas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Francis | John Joseph | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Jacobson | Joel Ross | 1974 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Miller | William Christian | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Lee | Percy Maxim | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reese | Everett David | 1964 | Doctor of Laws | |
| DiFrancesco | Donald T. | 2007 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brower | Charles Hendrickson | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stamato | Linda L. | 1985 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Leopold | Alice Koller | 1958 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dillon | Clarence Douglas | 1961 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Park | Rosemary | 1956 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Mitchell | James Paul | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Earl | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Frelinghuysen | Peter H.B. | 1976 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Chisholm | Shirley | 2002 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Doar | John | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Warren | Elizabeth | 2011 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yamba | A. Zachary | 2006 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Lester Russell | 1978 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Marin | Luis Muñoz | 1965 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Friedman | Milton | 1968 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Hill | Anita | 2018 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Christie | Chris | 2010 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Bergethon | Kaare Roald | 1959 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Reitman | Norman | 1986 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Herrmann | Lewis Mordecai | 1960 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Yanitelli | Victor Robert, S.J. | 1966 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Brown | Raymond A. | 1972 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Schwartz | Anna Jacobson | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Clapp | Margaret | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Stevenson | Adlai Ewing | 1962 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Dougherty | John Joseph | 1962 | Doctor of Laws |
