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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
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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
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M. Shawn Copeland, PhD
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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.
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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.
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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
Doctor of Public Service (Speaker)
William Homer Timbers
Doctor of Civil Law
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)
From Commencement 1951 to present