Note: All names denoted by * are Fordham alumni.
2018 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Emanuel | Chirico | Chairman and CEO of PVH Corp. |
Patricia | Clarkson | Award-Winning Actress |
Sherrilyn | Ifill | President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund |
Cardinal Joseph W. | Tobin, C.Ss.R. | Archbishop of Newark |
Marianne | Kraft | Principal of St. Athanasius School |
Louise | Mirrer | President and CEO of the New York Historical Society |
William S. | Stavropoulos | Former Chairman and CEO of the Dow Chemical Company |
Peter B. | Vaughan | Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Social Service |
Anne | Wiliams-Isom | CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone |
2017 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Anne | Anderson | Ambassador of Ireland to the United States |
Joseph | Cammarosano | Professor Emeritus of Economics, Fordham University |
Anthony | Carter | Former Vice President, Global Diversity & Inclusion, and Chief Diversity Officer, Johnson & Johnson |
Michael | Dowling | President and Chief Executive Officer of Northwell Health |
Jane | Iannucelli | President of the Sisters of Charity |
Gregory | Long | Chief Executive Officer and the William C. Steere Sr. President of the New York Botanical Garden |
Cardinal Óscar Andrés | Rodríguez Maradiaga | Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Head of the Pope’s Council of Cardinals |
Eric | Schneiderman | Attorney General of New York |
2016 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Judith | Altmann | Holocaust Survivor; Vice President of the Holocaust Child Survivors of Connecticut |
Robert | Battle | Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
Gregory | Boyle | Executive Director, Homeboy Industries |
Henry | Cobb | Founding Partner, Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners; Designer of the Fordham Law School and McKeon Residence Hall |
Maurice | Cunniffe | Chairman and CEO, Vista Capital; Fordham University Trustee Emeritus |
Patricia | David | Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity, JP Morgan Chase |
Carol | Keehan | President and Chief Executive Officer, Catholic Health Association of the United States |
Loretta | Preska | Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; Fordham University Trustee Fellow |
David | Skorton | Secretary, Smithsonian Institute |
2015 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Douglas | Brooks | Director, White House Office of National AIDS Policy |
Hage G. | Geingob* | President, Republic of Namibia |
Matthew | Goldstein | Former Chancellor, City University of New York |
Judith | Livingston | Senior Partner, Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore |
William | Loschert* | Chairman of ACE UK Limited; Nonexecutive Director of ACE Underwriting Agencies; former Fordham Trustee |
Nana Lordina Dramani | Mahama | First Lady of the Republic of Ghana |
Thomas | Moore* | Senior Partner, Kramer, Dillof, Livingston & Moore |
Michael | Mullen | Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
Jaime Lucas Cardinal | Ortega | Archbishop of Havana |
Eugene | Shvidler* | Chairman, Millhouse LLC; Executive Chairman, Highland Gold Mining, Ltd. |
Mary Anne | Sullivan* | Partner, Hogan Lovells |
Dennis | Walcott* | Former Chancellor, New York Public School System |
2014 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Stephen | Bepler* | Senior Vice President, Capital Research Global Investors, former Fordham Trustee |
Yvonne | Cagle | US Air Force Officer; NASA Senior Astronaut Physician and Researcher |
Denny | Chin* | Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Mary Alice | Hannan, OP | Former Executive Director, Part of the Solution |
Nemir | Kirdar* | Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO, Investcorp |
Reynold | Levy | President, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts |
Archbishop Diarmuid | Martin | Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland |
Constantino | Martinez | Former Major League Baseball All-Star, New York Yankees |
Sonia | Sotomayor | Associate Justice, US Supreme Court; Author |
Luis Antonio G. Cardinal | Tagle | Archbishop of Manila |
Archbishop Rowan | Williams | 104th Archbishop of Canterbury; Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge |
Archbishop Anastasios | Yannoulatos | Archbishop of Tirana, Durres, and all Albania |
2013 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Kaushik | Basu | Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, World Bank |
Sally | Bellet* | President, Stein/Bellet Foundation |
Preet | Bharara | US Attorney for the Southern District of New York |
Dion | DiMucci | Musician, Dion and the Belmonts |
Richard | Engel | Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC News |
Patricia | Harris | First Deputy Mayor, New York City |
Paulette | LoMonaco, RGS | Executive Director, Good Shepherd Services |
John | Tognino* | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pepper Financial Group; former Merrill Lynch executive; former Executive VP, NASDAQ; Chair, Fordham Board of Trustees |
2012 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Nassir Abdulaziz | Al-Nasser | President, United Nations General Assembly |
Tony | Bennett | Singer |
John | Brennan* | Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and Deputy National Security Advisor |
Michelle | DePass* | Assistant Administrator, Office of International and Tribal Affairs, US Environmental Protection Agency |
Timothy Cardinal | Dolan | Archbishop of New York |
Eugenie | Doyle* | Professor Emerita of Pediatric Cardiology, NYU Langone Medical Center |
Jacqueline | Novogratz | Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund; Author |
Phylicia | Rashad | Tony Award Winning Actress, former Denzel Washington Professor of Theatre, Fordham |
Edolphus | Towns | Representative, US Congress; Leader of the Social Work Caucus |
2011 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Benigno Simeon C. | Aquino III | President, Republic of the Philippines |
Glorya | Kaufman | Philanthropist; Founder, Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation |
Earle I. | Mack | Arts advocate; businessman; former US Ambassador to Finland |
Peter | Pace | Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
George E. | Pataki | Former Governor, State of New York |
Steven E. | Sanderson | President and Chief Executive Officer, Wildlife Conservation Society; former Fordham Trustee |
Marian | Seldes | Tony Award winning actress |
Sviatoslav | Shevchuk | Head and Father of the Ukrainian Catholic Church |
Alex | Trebek | Host, Jeopardy! |
Brian | Williams | Anchor and Managing Editor, NBC Nightly News |
2010 Honorary Degree Recipients First Name | Last Name | Occupation |
Francis M. | Campbell | United Kingdom Ambassador to the Holy See |
Miguel Humberto | Diaz | US Ambassador to the Holy See; former professor of Theology |
Alfonso J. "Alfy" | Fanjul Jr.* | Chairman and CEO, Fanjul Corporation |
John K. | Mara* | President and Chief Executive Officer, New York Giants Football |
Mary | McAleese | President of Ireland |
Robert M. | Morgenthau | Former District Attorney of New York County |
Richard | Ravitch | Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York |