Honorary Degree Recipients

Recipient

Degree

Date

Rev. Mother Neomisia Rutkowska, CSFN, PhD

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 31, 1964

Most Reverend Gerald V. McDevitt

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 16, 1971

Most Reverend John Cardinal Krol

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 1977

John F. Lontz

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 29, 1979

Sister Aloysius Sabacinska, CSFN

Doctor of Humane Letters

April 3, 1979

Edmund D. Pellegrino

Doctor of Humane Letters

April 3, 1979

Hilary Koprowski

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 1979

Most Reverend Francis B. Schulte

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 16, 1981

Paul M. Lin

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 1983

W. Wilson Goode

Doctor of Laws

May 12, 1984

Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, CSC

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 27, 1985

George Nakashima

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 1985

Dorothy A. Mereness

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 1985

Sister Ann Ida Gannon, BVM

Doctor of Humane Letters

April 9, 1986

Edwin O. Guthman

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 10, 1986

Anna M. Brady

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 10, 1986

Reverend William J. Byron, SJ

Doctor of Humane Letters

April 8, 1987

Most Reverend Louis A. DeSimone

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 9, 1987

Most Reverend Tomas Cardinal O’Fiaich

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 8, 1988

Beatrice Mintz

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 1988

Most Reverend Anthony J. Cardinal Bevilacqua

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 1989

Elaine Isaacson Brown

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 1989

Francis E. Rosato

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 1989

Sister Magdalen Coughlin, CSJ

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 28, 1990

Robert P. Casey

Doctor of Laws

May 12, 1990

Leonid D. Rudnytzky

Doctor of Humane Letters

April 11, 1991

Robert N.C. Nix

Doctor of Laws

May 11, 1991

Frank A. Salvatore

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 1991

Don Tollefson

Doctor of Humane Letters

April 1, 1992

Sister M. Isolina Ferre

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 9, 1992

Emanuel S. Kardon

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 9, 1992

Terrel H. Bell

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 28, 1993

Donald M. Carroll

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 8, 1993

Francis Xavier Murphy, CSSR

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 8, 1993

Roger P. Winter

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 8, 1993

Ann Bishop

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 20, 1994

Reverend J. Stuart Dooling, OSFS

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 20, 1994

Morton Botel

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 1994

Reverend Paul S. Quinter

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 1994

Ralph J. Roberts

Doctor of Laws

May 14, 1994

Loretta Hennessey

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 26, 1995

Monika K. Hellwig

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 26, 1995

Charles L. Blockson

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 1995

Thomas Patrick Melady

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 1995

Allen Splete

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 17, 1996

Herbert G. Brown

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 1996

Oscar E. Remick

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 16, 1997

Most Reverend Robert B. Maginnis

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 10, 1997

Sister Peter Claver Fahy, MSBT

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 8, 1998

John W. Turner, Jr.

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 8, 1998

Brother Patrick Ellis, FSC

Doctor of Humane Letters

March 22, 1998

Robert Wuthnow

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 9, 1998

Samuel Hazo

Doctor of Humane Letters

November 15, 1998

Robert Galardi

Doctor of Laws

May 8, 1999

Alicja Grezeskowiak

Doctor of Humane Letters

October 1, 1999

Patricia A. Cahill

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 2000

Lisa Thomas-Laury

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 2000

Aaron Feuerstein

Doctor of Humane Letters

September 24, 2000

Robert J. Bruce

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 4, 2001

Ann Hawkes Hutton

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 2001

Bartholomew John McGettrick

Doctor of Humane Letters

October 25, 2001

Minna F. Weinstein

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 10, 2002

Harold B. Hairston

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 2002

Dave Roberts

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 2002

Evgeniy Gorkovskiy

>Doctor of Humane Letters

October 13, 2002

Eudora Pettigrew

Doctor of Humane Letters

October 13, 2002

Donald R. Gerth

Doctor of Humane Letters

Februray 9, 2003

Werner H. Von Rosenstiel

Doctor of Humane Letters

Februray 9, 2003

Paul G. Vallas

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 10, 2003

Raymond Angelo

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 10, 2003

Raymond M. Haas

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 10, 2003

Sister Alice Hess, IHM

Doctor of Humane Letters

November 2, 2003

Edward G. Boehne

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 8, 2004

Kal and Lucille Rudman Foundation

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 8, 2004

Patricia Burns DeAngelis

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 8, 2004

Amy Caples

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 8, 2004

Armand Gentile

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 6, 2005

Margaret M. Healy

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 6, 2005

Robert Truitt

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2005

Bette E. Landman

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2005

Joseph W. Marshall

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2005

h. c. Hansjurgen Doss

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 5, 2006;

Sister Therese Tygielska, CSFN

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 5, 2006

Jean C. Griswold

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 2006

Carl F. Gregory

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 2006

Anne Marie Pettit

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 13, 2006

Sister Mary Ellen Gemmell, CSFN

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 2007

Sister H. Rosalie Bertell, GNSH

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 2007

Sister Mary Reap, IHM

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 23, 2008

Most Reverend Justin, Cardinal Rigali

Doctor of Humane Letters

>May 23, 2008

Sister M. Celine Warnilo, CSFN

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 23, 2008

Joseph Bordogna

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 2009

J. Lindsey Bradley

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 2009

Jamie Moyer

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 11, 2009

Shuping Chen

Doctor of Humane Letters

November 4, 2009

Timothy C. Flanagan

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2010

John Prendergast

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2010

Sister Janice Fulmer, CSFN

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2010

Harry Carl Schaub

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2011

Anthony J. Szuszczewicz

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2011

Woodrow Wilson Wolfe, Jr.

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2011

Robbin Troy Armstrong

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 19, 2012

Richard J. Curry

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 19, 2012

Luz Duque-Hammershaimb

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 19, 2012

Anne M. Gallagher

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 19, 2012

George W. Nise

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 19, 2012

Randy J. Coddington

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2013

Dominic C. Marano

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2013

Sister Callista Roy, CSJ

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2013

Robert E. Tepfer

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2013

Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

Doctor of Humane Letters

February 9, 2014

Albert T. Chadwick, III

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 17, 2014

Sister Sally Marie Kiepura, CSFN

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 17, 2014

Paul Hongsuk Kim

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 17, 2014

Reverend Gregory Boyle, SJ

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 19, 2015

Joan Dawson McConnon

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 19, 2015

Mother Dolores Hart, OSB

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 2016

Hon. Charles F. Dougherty

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 2016

Sister Thea Krause, CSFN, PhD

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 2016

Denis P. Mulcahy

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 12, 2016

Hon. Michael G. Fitzpatrick

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 9, 2017

Kathryn Ott Lovell

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 9, 2017

Albert Martin Tantala Sr., PE

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 15, 2018

Pamela Rainey Lawler

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 15, 2018

Dennis J. Colgan

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 15, 2018

Audrey Elizabeth Evans, MD

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 15, 2018

Thomas B. Peterson

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2019

Sister Norma Pimentel, MJ

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 14, 2019

Sister Camille D’Arienzo, RSM, PhD

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 15, 2021

Rabbi Abraham Skorka, PhD

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 15, 2021

Carol Taylor ’75, Ph.D., MSN, RN, FAAN

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 21, 2022

Reverend Luis Cortés, Jr.

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 21, 2022

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, J.D., President of Ukraine (degree awarded in absentia)

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 21, 2022

Thomas R. Bailey, Ph.D.

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 20, 2023

Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, CM

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 20, 2023

Sarita E. Brown

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2024

Donald Guy Generals, Ed.D.

Doctor of Humane Letters

May 18, 2024