Honorary Degrees

Undergraduate Commencement

Marcela Orvañanos de Rovzar
Doctor of Laws

Mary Beth Powers
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement

Geoffrey Canada
Doctor of Laws

Charles MacCormack, PhD
Doctor of Laws

Undergraduate Commencement

Robert D. Manfred Jr.
Doctor of Laws

Nicole Hockley
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement

Allison Joy Rivera
Doctor of Laws

Carl F. Bailey Jr. ’75
Doctor of Laws

Judy Woodruff
Doctor of Laws

No honorary degrees were conferred in 2020 due to the pandemic.

Undergraduate Commencement

William Atwell, P’08
Doctor of Laws

Marna Borgstrom
Doctor of Laws

Chris Lowney
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement

Hector M. Sanchez
Doctor of Laws

Billy Shore
Doctor of Laws

Undergraduate Commencement

Brother Guy Joseph Consolmagno, S.J.
Doctor of Science

Rev. James Michael Bowler, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

William P. Egan ’67, P’99
Doctor of Laws

M. Shawn Copeland, PhD
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement

John R. Mitchell
Doctors of Laws

The Honorable Mark R. Dybul, MD
Doctor of Science

Undergraduate Commencement

Stephen Braga ‘78
Doctor of Laws

Rev. Sean Carroll, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

Dianne Dwyer Modestini
Doctor of Humanities

Graduate Commencement

Juanita James
Doctors of Laws

Sr. Patricia Eck, C.B.S.
Doctor of Science

Undergraduate Commencement

Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

Don Gummer
Doctor of Humane Letters

Julio Ramirez, ’77, PhD
Doctor of Science

Graduate Commencement

Cindi Bigelow
Doctor of Laws

Sr. Maureen Fleming, SSND
Doctor of Laws

Undergraduate Commencement
Rev. James Martin, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

John C. Meditz ’70
Doctor of Humanities

Sharon Robinson
Doctor of Science

Graduate Commencement
Rev. Greg Boyle, S.J.
Doctor of Humanities

Clea Newman Soderlund
Doctor of Humanities

Undergraduate Commencement
Sharon M. K. Kugler
Doctor of Humane Letters

John W. Padberg, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

John S. Santa
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement
Mary Ann Christopher '79, MSN, RN, FAAN
Doctor of Science

Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Undergraduate Commencement
Maureen L. Clark, CSJ
Doctor of Laws

Rev. Michael J. Garanzini, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

William Peter McDonald '75
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement
Patricia Farrell, OSF
Doctor of Laws

Dr. Patrick W. Kelley '76, P'12
Doctor of Science

Undergraduate Commencement
Rev. Richard J. Clifford, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Jane Ellen Ferreira
Doctor of Humane Letters

Joseph G. Timpone, Jr. '80, M.D.
Doctor of Science

Joseph P. Russoniello '63
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement
Sister Clare Fitzgerald, S.S.N.D.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Suzanne and Bob Wright
Doctor of Laws

Undergraduate Commencement
The Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry
Doctor of Laws

Russell Goings
Doctor of Laws

The Rev. John W. O'Malley, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

Joseph D. Sargent '59, P'89, '86
Doctor of Laws

Graduate Commencement
Rear Admiral Brian P. Monahan
Doctor of Science

Reverend Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Katherine Lapp
Doctor of Laws

Dr. Mayra Luz Perez Diaz
Doctor of Laws

Emily Kerman Rafferty
Doctor of Laws
Graduate Commencement

James L. Abbruzzese
Doctor of Science

Monsignor Ralph W. Beiting
Doctor of Laws

Dr. Mathy Mezey
Doctor of Science

Dr. Peter J. Pronovost
Doctor of Science

Bryan A. Stevenson
Doctor of Laws

David Amram
Doctor of Humane Letters

Reverend John Halligan, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

Sister M. Julianna Poole, S.S.N.D.
Doctor of Laws

Francis T. Vincent, Jr.
Doctor of Laws

Edward P. Hardiman
Doctor of Laws

Meghan Lowney
Doctor of Laws

James P. Roach
Doctor of Laws

Very Reverend Thomas J. Regan, S.J.
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Hope E. Carter
Doctor of Laws

Michael Joseph Daly
Doctor of Laws

Archbishop Celestino Migliore
Doctor of Laws

British August Robinson
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Maryann T. Furlong
Doctor of Laws

Arthur C. Laske
Doctor of Laws

Monsignor John C. Sanders
Doctor of Laws

Florence Schorske Wald
Doctor of Laws

Judge Guido Calabresi
Doctor of Laws

James F. Hanrahan
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B.
Doctor of Laws

Cokie Roberts
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Michael W. Donnelly
Doctor of Laws

Mary Rose McGready, D.C.
Doctor of Laws

Grayce McVeigh Sills
Doctor of Science

Strobe Talbott
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

George W. Bur, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

Loretta Brennan Glucksman
Doctor of Laws

John P. Sachs
Doctor of Science

Ann Elizabeth Credidio, B.V.M.
Doctor of Laws

Arthur Levitt, Jr.
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Daniel P. Tully
Doctor of Laws

Richard J. Curry, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Colin G. Campbell
Doctor of Laws

Samuel E. Carter, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

Dennis D. Dammerman
Doctor of Laws

Mark D. Gearan
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

James L. Connor, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Gustav Meier
Doctor of Laws

Leslie C. Quick, Jr.
Doctor of LawsLaws

Carole Simpson
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

David E.A. Carson
Doctor of Laws

Thomas F. Banchoff
Doctor of Science

Thomas John Brokaw
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Lawrence E. Doby
Doctor of Laws

George Burton Harvey
Doctor of Laws

Elizabeth Marie Pfriem
Doctor of Laws

Harris Wofford
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Milton J. Hinton
Doctor of Humane Letters

George W. Hunt, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Dorothy Bannow Larson
Doctor of Laws

Jean Kennedy Smith
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Jacquelyn C. Durrell
Doctor of Laws

Marian L. Heard
Doctor of Laws

Alfred C. Kammer, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

E. Gerald Corrigan
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

John J. Higgins, S.J.
Doctor of Laws

Robert Conover Macauley
Doctor of Laws

Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B.
Doctor of Laws

Ann Woodruff Compton
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Reverend J. Bryan Hehir
Doctor of Humane Letters

James Dewey Watson
Doctor of Science

John A. Barone
Doctor of Science

Thomas Edmund Aquinas Carew
Doctor of Laws

Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Carmen F. Donnarumma (Speaker)

William M. Joel
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Judge Ellen Bree Burns
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Martin McCarthy, S.J.
Doctor of Science

Paul Volcker
Doctor of Laws

John J. Phelan
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Fortune Pope
Doctor of Laws

Willie H. Ruff
Doctor of Humane Letters

Leonard Bernstein
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Clara McBride Hale
Doctor of Laws

L. William Miles
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Timothy Healy, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Geraldine W. Johnson
Doctor of Laws

Ernest M. Lorch
Doctor of Laws

George F. Taylor
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Lawrence A. Burke, S.J.
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Alphonsus J. Donahue
Doctor of Laws

Lucille Lortel
Doctor of Humane Letters

Reverend David W. Tracy
Doctor of Humane Letters

Dr. Robert Coles
Doctor of Humane Letters

Dith Pran
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Reverend William Wallace, O.P.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Arvin Brown
Doctor of Humane Letters

Reverend George W. MacRae, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Governor William O'Neill
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Sister Mary Consolata O'Connor, R.S.M.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Robert M. Hayes
Doctor of Laws

Ted Koppel
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Martha Elizabeth Rogers
Doctor of Science

Lawrence Arthur Wien
Doctor of Laws

Margaret Ann Farley
Doctor of Humane Letters

Francis Joseph McNamara, Jr.
Doctor of Laws

Elie Wiesel
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

William Joseph Dorfer, Jr.
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Thomas R. Fitzgerald, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Jason Nelson Robards
Doctor of Humane Letters

Andrew Clark Sigler
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Serena S. Merck
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Bruce Ritter, O.F.M.
Doctor of Laws

Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

William L. Hawkins
Doctor of Humane Letters

David W.P. Jewitt
Doctor of Laws

Reverend George Stirling Mahan, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Reverend Joseph A. O'Hare, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)Laws

Ella Grasso
Doctor of Public Service

Reverend Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

George William Miller - Doctor of Public Administration (Speaker)

Reverend James H. Coughlin, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Evelyn Kennedy
Doctor of Public Service

Stewart B. McKinney
Doctor of Public Service (Speaker)

Arthur Miller
Doctor of Humane Letters

Samuel Waller Hawley
Doctor of Public Service

Robert Paul Ramsey
Doctor of Humane Letters

Dean Rusk
Doctor of Civil Law (Speaker)

Reverend William Charles McInnes, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Richard Peter McKeon
Doctor of Humane Letters

Reverend Theodore Martin Hesburgh
Doctor of Public Service

John Joseph Sirica
Doctor of Civil Law (Speaker)

James Warren Birkenstock
Doctor of Laws

Samuel Dash
Doctor of Civil Law (Speaker)

William Styron
Doctor of Humane Letters

John Joseph Sullivan
Doctor of Public Service

Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Rene Jules Dubos
Doctor of Science

Joseph Hoffer Blatchford
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Lawrence Warren Pierce
Doctor of Laws

Max Tishler
Doctor of Science

John Whittaker Christensen
Doctor of Science

Alvin Christian Eurich
Doctor of Humane Letters

Harrison Edward Farnsworth
Doctor of Science

Alexander Kipnis
Doctor of Fine Arts

Morris King Udall
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Kenneth Burke
Doctor of Humane Letters

Most Reverend Harold Robert Perry, S.V.D.
Doctor of Laws

Edmund Griffith Williamson
Doctor of Arts (Speaker)

Korczak Ziolkowski
Doctor of ArtsLaws

Dana Lyda Farnsworth
Doctor of Science

J. Gerald Phelan
Doctor of Arts

Theodore Chaikin Sorensen
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Robert Penn Warren
Doctor of Humane Letters

Amos Wiven Wilder
Doctor of Theology

Edward Bennett Williams
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Homer Daniels Babbidge, Jr.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Arsene Croteau
Doctor of Humane Letters

Peter Carl Goldmark
Doctor of Science

Howard Thomas Owens
Doctor of Laws

Right Reverend Monsignor John Joseph Toomey
Doctor of Laws

Donald Henry McGannon
Doctor of Humane Letters

William Sumner Simpson
Doctor of Public Service

Edward John Steichen
Doctor of Fine Arts

Roger Tory Peterson
Doctor of Science

John Dempsey
Doctor of Laws

James Vincent Joy
Doctor of Laws

John Courtney Murray
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Marion Anderson
Doctor of Humane Letters

Igor Ivan Sikorsky
Doctor of Science

William Conley
Doctor of Laws

Richard Cardinal Cushing
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Thomas Dodd
Doctor of Laws

Henry W. Littlefield
Doctor of Laws

Paul Horgan
Doctor of Humane Letters (Speaker)

Right Reverend Monsignor John H. Anderson, D.D., P.A.
Doctor of Laws

William Joseph Sanders
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Sir Alexander Bustamante, K. B.
Doctor of Laws

Most Reverend Walter William Curtis, S.T.D.
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Herman William Steinkraus
Doctor of Laws

Right Reverend Monsignor Cornelius P. Tuelings
Doctor of Humane Letters

Francis James Braceland
Doctor of Science (Speaker)

Henry Michael Hogan
Doctor of Laws

Thomas Dresser White
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Reverend John J. Collins, S.J.
Doctor of Humane Letters

Abraham Ribicoff
Doctor of Laws

Most Reverend Bernard J. Flanagan, D.D.
Doctor of Laws(Speaker)

Joseph Sullivan
Doctor of Laws

John Peter Hagan
Doctor of Science

Most Reverend Joseph Lawrence Shehan, D.D.
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Most Reverend John Francis Hackett, D.D.
Doctor of Laws

Raymond Earl Baldwin
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Margaret Veronica Kiely
Doctor of Laws

Most Reverend Monsignor Joseph Francis Donnelly
Doctor of Laws

The Honorable Charles Malik
Doctor of Laws

Reverend Edward Bernard Rooney, S.J.
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)

Frank Daniel Whalen
Doctor of Laws

James Milton O'Neil
Doctor of Humane Letters

Most Reverend Henry J. O'Brien, D.D.
Doctor of Laws

Most Reverend William R. Arnold, D.D.
Doctor of Laws

Most Reverend John J. McEleney, S.J., D.D.
Doctor of Laws

The Honorable J. Howard McGrath
Doctor of Laws (Speaker)