Year Ranges
2020-2029
2020
Jessye Norman, D.A. (Posthumous)
Henry Louis Gates Jr., D.H.L.
Martina Vandenberg ’90, LL.D.
2021
Ady Barkan, D.H.L.
Gustavo Dudamel, D.A.
William Keller '70 P'19, LL.D.
2022
Jennifer Doudna ’85, D.Sc.
Stewart Russell Smith ’68, LL.D.
2023
Peggy Lee Dean ’77, D.H.L.
Sherrilyn Ifill, LL.D.
2010-2019
2010
Janet Napolitano, LL.D.
Robert Price ’64, D.H.L.
Robert Towne ’56, Litt.D.
2011
Judy Burton ’62, Ed.D.
Steven Chu, D.Sc.
Edwin Krupp ’66, D.Sc.
Douglas Preston ’77, Litt.D.
2012
Marigold Linton, Ed.D.
David Keith Murray ’77, Mus.D.
Cameron Munter, LL.D.
Jonathan Veitch, D.H.L.
2013
Sharon L. Camp ’65, LL.D.
Ranney E. Draper ’60, D.H.L.
Walter S. Isaacson, D.H.L.
2014
Father Gregory Boyle, D.H.L
Plácido Domingo, Mus.D.
Valerie B. Jarrett, LL.D.
Michael Starbird ’70, D.Sc.
At Special Convocation February 4, 2014
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, D.H.L.
2015
France A. Córdova, D.Sc.
Michael Dickerson 2001, D.Sc.
Andrew Hoyem ’57, Litt.D.
Stephen Reinhardt ’51, LL.D.
2016
Deborah Bial, D.H.L.
Vikram Chandra ’84, Litt.D.
M. Helen Pashgian ’56, D.F.A.
2017
Sarah CR Elgin ’67, D. Sc.
Gay McDougall, LL.D.
Brian Schatz ’94, LL.D.
Frederick Sontag D.H.L.
Susan Sontag ’64, D.H.L.
2018
Danielle Allen, D.H.L
Kenji Yoshino, D.H.L.
2019
Esther Brimmer ’83, D.P.S.
2000-2009
2000
John Hope Franklin, Litt.D.
Karl Kohn, D.H.L.
Lynda Obst ’72, D.F.A.
2001
Julie Buring ’71, D.Sc.
Barbara Smith ’42, Mus.D.
James Turrell ’65, D.F.A.
Garrick Utley, Litt.D.
2002
Jennie Keith ’64, Litt.D.
Arturo Madrid, Litt.D.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, LL.D.
At Convocation in September 2002
John E. Edwards, Jr. ’64, D.Sc.
2003
Louis Menand ’73, Litt.D.
Akira Iriye, Litt.D.
Theodore Mitchell, Ed.D.
Lucy Shelton ’65, Mus.D.
2004
Walter Cronkite, D.H.L.
R. Stanton Hales ’64, D.Sc.
Andrea Van de Kamp, D.F.A.
2005
Steven S. Koblik, Litt.D.
John Payton ’73, LL.D.
Thomas Dean Pollard ’64, D.Sc.
2006
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, D.H.L.
Thomas Crow ’69, D.F.A.
Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran ’69, Ed.D.
2007
Mary Patterson McPherson, D.H.L.
Robert Ernest Tranquada ’51, D.Sc.
Daniel Robert Graham, LL.D.
2008
Alex Gibney, D.F.A
Ingrid Rowland ’74, D.F.A.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mus.D.
Peter W. Stanley, D.H.L.
2009
Robert Herbert, D.H.L.
Mary Schmich ’75, D.H.L.
Luis Valdez, D.F.A.
1990-1999
1990
Karen Nicholson Horn ’65, LL.D.
1992
Corwin Hansch, D.Sc.
Antonia Hernandez, LL.D.
1993
James Gerstley, LL.D.
Donald McIntrye, D.Sc.
Kathleen Ross, LL.D.
1994
Shelton L. Beatty, Litt.D.
Peter F. Drucker, LL.D.
Jean B. Walton, D.Sc.
George C. Wolfe ’76, Litt.D
1995
Bruce Edward Babbitt, LL.D.
Anita L. DeFrantz, LL.D.
Patrick Stewart ’72, Litt.D.
1996
Catharine Alexander, Litt.D.
David Alexander, Litt.D.
Myrlie Evers Williams ’68, LL.D.
1997
Richard Seaver ’43, D.F.A.
1998
Roy E. Disney ’51, D.F.A.
Lee Cameron McDonald ’48, LL.D.
Richard M. Preston ’76, Litt. D.
1999
John Cleese, Litt. D.
James A. Joseph, LL.D.
1980-1989
1980
Julian Nava ’51, LL.D.
F. Raymond Fosberg ’30, D.Sc.
1981
Paul Fussell, Jr. ’45, Litt.D.
Vernon Orr ’37, LL.D.
Leonard A. Shelton ’32, LL.D.
1982
Bill Bradley, LL.D.
1983
Nancy Adams Mosshammer Neuman ’57, LL.D.
1984
Coretta Scott King, LL.D.
Yale B. Griffith ’25, LL.D.
Edward A. Knapp ’54, D.Sc.
1985
Michael Armacost, LL.D.
H. Russell Smith ’36, LL.D.
1986
W.T. Jones, D.H.L.
1987
Cruz Reynoso ’53, LL.D.
Twyla Tharp ’62, D.F.A.
1988
Stephen Jay Gould, D.Sc.
Lucia Myers ’35, LL.D.
1989
Raymond Barre, LL.D.
John Brooks Slaughter, D.Sc.
1970-1979
1970
Mrs. Victor Montgomery ’41, D.F.A.
Mrs. Frank R. Seaver, LL.D.
Ernest A. Strathmann, Litt.D.
1971
Mason L. Hill ’26, D.Sc.
M. Stanley Livingston ’26, D.Sc.
Morris B. Pendleton ’22, LL.D.
Maurice H. Stans, LL.D.
Alfred O. Woodford 1913, D.Sc.
1972
Richard Armour ’27, Litt.D.
Richard Chamberlain ’43, D.F.A.
Peter B. Clark ’52, LL.D.
Ved P. Mehta ’56, Litt.D.
1973
Muriel Beadle ’36, LL.D.
Raymond B. Cowles 1921, D.Sc.
Kristoffer Kristofferson ’58, D.F.A.
Wright Morris ’34, Litt.D.
1974
Stanley Sumner Ballard ’28, D.Sc.
Robert James Bernard 1917, LL.D.
M. Frederick Hawthorne ’49, D.Sc.
Carolyn Bartel Lyon, L.H.D.
Elijah Wilson Lyon, L.H.D.
Vladimir A. Ussachevsky ’35, D.F.A.
1975
Jean Goodwin Ames ’25, D.F.A.
Donald Carnegie McKenna ’29, LL.D.
Frederic John Robbins, D.Sc.
1976
Laurence William Lane ’42, Jr., LL.D.
Melvin Bell Lane ’44, LL.D.
Harvey Harlow Nininger 1917, D.Sc.
C. Page Smith, Litt.D.
Frank Allan Southard, Jr. ’27, LL.D.
Stephen K. Tamura ’33, D.C.L.
1978
Danny Kaye, D.F.A.
J. Edward Sanders, LL.D.
Louise Maxwell Warren ’30, L.H.D.
1979
Joan Adams Mondale, D.F.A.
J. Martin Carovano ’57, LL.D.
Morton S. Robert ’48, D.Sc.
Norman Edward Shumway, D.Sc.
1960-1969
1960
Charles Alfred Anderson ’24, D.Sc.
Agnes Marie Johnson, M.A.
1961
George Wells Beadle, D.Sc.
David Elliott Bell ’39, LL.D.
Merrimon Cunninggim, Litt.D.
Philip Alexander Munz, D.Sc.
1962
Allen F. Hawley 1916, LL.D.
Thompson Webb, LL.D.
1963
Charlotte Dickinson Elmott ’26, LL.D.
Fulton Freeman ’37, LL.D.
Philip Albert Leighton 1920, D.Sc.
Relman George Morin ’29, Litt.D.
A.T. Richardson 1903, LL.D.
1964
Paul Fussell, LL.D.
1965
Francis Edward Blacet ’22, D.Sc.
Lee Alvin DuBridge, D.Sc.
John McDonald Ide ’27, D.Sc.
Victor LaRue Klee ’45, Jr., D.Sc.
Per Kristen Kofstad, D.Sc.
1966
Hedley Donovan, Litt.D.
Richard Carleton Gilman, LL.D.
William B. Himrod 1908, LL.D.
J. Robert Schaetzel ’39, LL.D.
Dana Adams Schmidt ’37, Litt.D.
James Robert Squire ’44, Litt.D.
1968
R. Stanton Avery ’32, LL.D.
Robert B. Coons, LL.D.
Rollin Eckis ’27, D.Sc.
Ira N. Frisbee 1919, LL.D.
James E. Mercereau ’53, D.Sc.
H. Victor Neher ’26, D.Sc.
1969
George C.S.Benson ’28, LL.D.
1950-1959
1950
Arthur J. McFadden 1901, LL.D.
Philip E. Smith 1908, D.Sc.
Arnold J. Toynbee, Litt.D.
1951
Norris E. Bradbury ’29, D.Sc.
Arthur G. Coons, LL.D
1952
Truman B. Douglass ’23, D.D.
1953
Robert L. Shaw ’38, D.Mus.
Carl Brent Swisher ’26, Litt.D.
Rudolph J. Wig, LL.D.
1954
Clifford J. Backstrand 1920, LL.D.
Essae Martha Culver 1905, Litt.D.
Henry David Gray ’30, D.D.
1955
Avery S. Hoyt 1910, D.Sc.
1956
William W. Clary 1911, LL.D.
1957
Roger Randall Revelle ’29, D.Sc.
Tokuzo Takiyama ’24, LL.D.
1958
Harold C. Bryant 1908, D.Sc.
Charles William Metz 1911, D.Sc.
Frank Roger Seaver 1905, LL.D.
Edward Weeks, Litt.D.
1959
Alexander Corbin Judson 1907, Litt.D.
Clark Kerr, LL.D.
Richard Freeman Post ’40, D.Sc.
Howard Shelton Swan ’28, LL.D.
Carl I. Wheat 1915, LL.D.
1940-1949
1940
Arthur L. T. Gould 1901, LL.D.
1941
Frank Aydelotte, LL.D.
Bernadotte Schmitt, Litt.D.
1946
Donald Bertrand Tresidder, LL.D.
1947
Frank Parkhurst Brackett, D.Sc.
Wilson Popenoe 1914, D.Sc.
1949
Alva R. Davis 1912, D.Sc.
Sir Oliver Franks, Litt.D.
J. E. Wallace Sterling, Litt.D.
1930-1939
1930
Joseph Chandler Harper, LL.D.
Charles Edward Harwood, LL.D.
Lan-fang Mei, Litt.D.
1931
Gregorio Martinez-Sierra, Litt.D.
Ernest Carroll Moore, LL.D.
Robert G. Sproul, LL.D.
1933
David L. Crawford 1911, LL.D.
Frederick W. Hodge, D.Sc.
Herbert C. Ide. D.D.
1935
Alfred C. Reed 1906, D.Sc.
Albert D. Stauffacher, D.D.
Henry R. Wagner, Litt.D.
1937
Remsen DuBois Bird, LL.D.
Max Mason, LL.D.
1938
Julean Arnold ’36, LL.D.
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, D.Mus.
1920-1929
1922
William M. Bade, D.D.
Foo Sec Fong 1905, LL.D.
Josiah Sibley 1899, D.D.
1923
Gilbert N. Brink 1898, D.D.
1924
Danjo Ebina, LL.D.
George W. Marston, LL.D.
Henry M. Robinson, LL.D.
1925
Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey, LL.D.
Daniel F. Fox, D.D.
1926
Walter S. Adams, LL.D.
1927
Mrs. Elldridge Fowler, M.A.
Leslie E. Fuller 1907, D.D.
Ellen B. Scripps, LL.D.
1928
James A. Blaisdell, LL.D.
Max Farrand, LL.D.
Cass Arthur Reed 1906, D.D.
1929
Hugh S. Gibson, LL.D.
1910-1919
1912
Charles B. Sumner, LL.D.
1914
David P. Barrows 1894, LL.D
1918
Hugh S. Gibson, M.A.