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Luz Vega-Marquis Public Service Andrea Mitchell Public Service
2014 Mary Schmidt Campbell Fine Arts
2013 Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Public Service Nancy Cantor Science
2012
2011 |
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| Rodney C. Adkins | Science | |
| Jeffrey R. Immelt | Public Service | |
| Marie M. Klawe | Public Service | |
| 2010 | ||
| Hon. Steny H. Hoyer* (spoke, did not receive degree) | n/a | |
| G. Wayne Clough | Science | |
| 2009 | ||
| Thomas Friedman | Humane Letters | |
| Shirley Tilghman | Science | |
| Peter Agre | Science | |
| Karen Davis | Public Service | |
| 2008 | ||
| Virginia Dresher | Public Service | |
| Paul S. Sarbanes | Public Service | |
| Franco Einaudi | Science | |
| Claude Steele | Science | |
| 2007 | ||
| Betsy and George Sherman | Public Service | |
| Judith Rodin | Humane Letters | |
| William Brody | Science | |
| 2006 | ||
| Soloman H. Snyder | Science | |
| Richard Broadhead | Humane Letters | |
| Alan Lightman | Humanities | |
| 2005 | ||
| Mary Ann E. Mears | Fine Arts | |
| 2004 | ||
| William Foege | Scienc | |
| Ursula M. Burns | Engineering | |
| William A. Haseltine | Science | |
| 2003 | ||
| Elias A. Zerthouni | Science | |
| William “Brit” Kirwan* (spoke, did not receive degree) | n/a | |
| 2002 | ||
| Joseph Bordogna* (spoke, did not receive degree) | n/a | |
| John C. Erickson* (spoke, did not receive degree) | n/a | |
| 2001 | ||
| Marian Wright Edelman | Public Service | |
| Hon. Barbara Hoffman | Public Service | |
| Robert E. Kahn | Science | |
| Hon. Howard Rawlings | Public Service | |
| 2000 | ||
| Thomas R. Chech | Science | |
| Robert W. Deutsch | Science | |
| Jeong H. Kim* (spoke, did not receive degree) | n/a | |
| Mayo Adams Shattuck, III | Public Service | |
| 1999 | ||
| Rita Rossi Colwell | Science | |
| John C. Erickson | Public Service | |
| Nancy A. Erickson | Public Service | |
| Darielle Dunn Lineman | Arts | |
| Earl Louise Linehan | Arts | |
| Eunice Kennedy Shriver | Public Service | |
| Sargent Shriver | Public Service | |
| 1998 | ||
| Daniel Saul Goldin | Science | |
| 1997 | ||
| Carl Djerassi | Science | |
| John H. Gibbons | Science | |
| Ira C. Magaziner | Public Administration | |
| Donna E. Shalala | Public Service | |
| 1996 | ||
| Stephen M. Case | Science | |
| Purnell W. Choppin | Science | |
| J. Robert Kerrey | Public Service | |
| 1995 | ||
| Edward Ray McCracken | Science | |
| Otto Ludwig Piene | Fine Arts | |
| Harold Eliot Varmus | Science | |
| 1994 | ||
| Shirley Sears Chater | Humane Letters | |
| M. Joycelyn Elders* (spoke, did not receive degree) | n/a | |
| Louis J. Goldstein | Humane Letters | |
| William Hackerman | Engineering | |
| William C. Richardson | Humane Letters | |
| Nelson John Sabatini | Public Service | |
| William Donald Schaefer | Laws | |
| Lisbeth Bamberger Schoor | Humane Letters | |
| Carole Simpson | Humane Letters | |
| Harold H. Wolf | Laws | |
| 1993 | ||
| R. Charles Avara | Public Service | |
| Perter D. Lax | Science | |
| Robert E. Meyerhoff | Humane Letters | |
| Barbara A. Mikulski | Letters | |
| 1992 | ||
| Henry Cisneros | Public Service | |
| Nancy Graves | Fine Arts | |
| Emmett Paige, Jr. | Laws | |
| 1991 | ||
| Robert Coles | Humane Letters | |
| Ralph Gibson | Fine Arts | |
| Arthur Kornberg | Science | |
| Enolia McMillan | Public Service | |
| 1990 | ||
| Taylor Branch | Humane Letters | |
| Eli Solomon Jacobs | Humane Letters | |
| Gwendolyn Stewart King | Public Service | |
| 1989 | ||
| Paul Duke | Laws | |
| Frances Morton Froelicher | Public Services | |
| Kou-ting Li | Science | |
| Max Roach | Music | |
| 1988 | ||
| Lyn P. Meyerhoff | Fine Arts | |
| Benjamin A. Quarles | Humane Letters | |
| Walter Sondheim, Jr. | Public Service | |
| Hiltgunt Margret Zassenhaus | Humane Letters | |
| 1987 | ||
| LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr. | Science | |
| Charles McC, Mathias, Jr. | Science | |
| 1986 | ||
| John G. St.Clair Drake | Letters | |
| Reg Murphy | Public Service | |
| Pauline Oliveros | Music | |
| Rudolph G. Penner | Public Service | |
| James P. Grant | Public Service | |
| Walter Rosenblum | Fine Arts | |
| 1985 | ||
| Robert M. Ball | Public Administration | |
| Dorothy Kent Hill | Humanities | |
| Alice Gwathney Pinderhughes | Public Service | |
| Maxine Frank Singer | Science | |
| Chia Chen Tan | Science | |
| 1984 | ||
| Robert Todd Duncan | Fine Arts | |
| Stephan Jay Gould | Science | |
| Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr. | Public Service | |
| Roger Rosenblatt | Humane Letters | |
| 1983 | ||
| Donald D. Brown | Science | |
| John L. Crew, Sr. | Public Service | |
| Lotte Jacobi | Fine Arts | |
| Albin O. Kuhn | Public Service | |
| William Arthur Lewis | Laws | |
| 1982 | ||
| Tom L. Freudenheim | Fine Arts | |
| John M. Sheehan | Public Service | |
| Maxim Shostakovich | Fine Arts | |
| Rosalyn S. Yalow | Science | |
| 1981 | ||
| Sterling A. Brown | Humanities | |
| Jon Franklin | Humane Letters | |
| 1980 | ||
| Ernst L. Boyer | Public Service | |
| Lucille Clifton | Humane Letters | |
| Donald A. Henderson | Science | |
| 1979 | ||
| Peter Gay | Letters | |
| C.L.R. James | Humane Letters | |
| 1978 | ||
| John Barademas | Laws | |
| Halden Keffer Hartline | Science | |
| Ola Belle Reed | Humane Letters | |
| 1977 | ||
| Louis Kaplan | Letters | |
| Richard Lattimore | Humane Letters | |
| Albert S. Sabin | Science | |
| 1976 | ||
| James S. Ackerman | Humane Letters | |
| 1975 | ||
| Alice Mitchell Rivlin | Laws | |
| 1974 | ||
| Malcolm Charles Moos | Laws | |
| 1973 | ||
| B.F. Skinner | Humane Letters | |
| 1972 | ||
| King V. Cheek | Laws | |
| 1971 | ||
| Patricia Roberts Harris | Laws | |
| 1970 | ||
| Howard K. Smith | Humane Letters | |