Honorary Degree Recipients and Speakers
- John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
- William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Stephen Breyer, Justice U.S. Supreme Court
- Antonin Scalia, Justice U.S. Supreme Court
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice U.S. Supreme Court
- Andrew Card, Chief of Staff to George W. Bush
- Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, Green Party Presidential nominee
- Edward Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
- Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist
- Edwin Meese III, U.S. Attorney General
- Richard Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
- Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City
- Robert S. Mueller III, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey
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