2022 Honorary Degree Recipients

Bill Baccaglini
Former CEO of The New York Foundling
Doctor of Humane Letters
Speaker at the Graduate School of Social Service Diploma Ceremony

Kim Bepler
Philanthropist and Fordham University Trustee Fellow
Doctor of Humane Letters

Sr. Rosamond Blanchet, R.S.H.M.
Area Leader and Former General Superior of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
Marymount College, Class of 1962
Doctor of Humane Letters

Calvin O. Butts, III
Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church
Doctor of Divinity
Speaker the University Commencement Ceremony

Mandell Crawley
Managing Director and Chief Human Resources Officer at Morgan Stanley
Gabelli School of Business, Class of 2009
Doctor of Humane Letters
Speaker at the Gabelli School of Business Graduate Diploma Ceremony

Patrick J. Foye
Former Chairman and CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority
Fordham College at Rose Hill, Class of 1978
School of Law, Class of 1981
Doctor of Humane Letters

Wilton Cardinal Gregory
Archbishop of Washington
Doctor of Divinity
Celebrant and Homilist at the Baccalaureate Mass at Rose Hill

Laura Taylor Swain
Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Doctor of Laws
Speaker at the School of Law Diploma Ceremony