Honorary Degrees Bestowed by 鶹ý University
               
			       Traditionally, during Commencement Weekend, 鶹ý University  honors women and men whose accomplishments are consistent with the Catholic and  Lasallian Mission of the University by bestowing Honorary Doctor of Humanities  degrees. The following individuals have been recognized by the University in  this way since 1955.
                  
 2025
Rev. Dr. Carlos and Dr. Blanca Plazas
Sr. Joye Gros, OP
 
 2024
 Fr. Dennis Holtschneider, CM
 
 
 2023
 James F. Segredo
 
 Dolores M. Pavletic 
 
 
 2022
 Timothy J. McCarthy 
   Kay Cannon
 
 2020
   Fr. Al Bischoff, S.J.
                       	
              2019
                Dr. Michael Galligan-Stierle
        Dr. James Healy
                           
      2018
        Brother  William Mann, FSC
        Kay Bolden
      
      2017
        Gery  Short
      
      2016
               John  E. Greuling
    Archbishop  J. Peter Sartain, D.D., S.T.L. 
               2015
                 John L. Allen, Jr.
                 Charles H. Ramsey
                 Bryan T. Durkin
                 Ann M. Schlenker
                 Antonia Contro
Dorothy Brown
Michael Hughes
Br. Michael McGinniss, FSC
               2014
                 Nelson J. Sabatini
                 Ralph Campagna
                 Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I
                 Dr. Carmen Cervantes, Ed.D.
                 Br. Robert R. Bimonte FSC
                 Frank 
                 H. Beal
                 Susan Perez
                 Tuskegee Airmen, Chicago Chapter
                 
                 
                 2013
                 Reverend J. Bryan Hehir, Th.D.
                 Rosemary Croghan, RN
                 Michael J. Vinciguerra
                 Jay D. Bergman
                 Diane K. Ballweg
                 Br. Peter Bray, FSC
                 Brent Wadsworth
                 
                 
                 2012
                 Natalie Bayci 
                 Reverend Robert Barron, S.T.D. 
                 Guy R. Wiebking 
                 James M. Denny 
                 Donald G. Lubin
                 Gerald W. Shea
                 Siham Ibrahim, D.M.
                 Rev. Donald Senior, C.P.
                 
                 
                 2011
                 Sister Mary Paul McCaughey, O.P.
                 U.S. Secretary Ray LaHood 
                 Michael F. Quirk, FSC, Ed.D. 
                 Sarode K. Pundaleeka, M.D.
                 U.S. Representative Judy Biggert 
                 Terry Mazany 
                 
                 
                 2010
                 Joseph C. Szabo 
                 Carolyn Y. Woo, Ph.D. 
                 Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas, D.D. 
                 Brother Neil Kieffe, FSC
                 Paul Pawlak 
                 Paula Wolff, Ph.D. 
                 
                 
                 2009
                 Brother Thomas Johnson, FSC (Convocation 8/25/09) 
                 Geoffrey Baer 
                 Justice Thomas L. Kilbride, J.D. 
                 Brother Donald C. Mouton, FSC
                 Eric D. Isaacs, Ph.D. 
                 State Sen. Edward D. Maloney 
                 Barbara Taylor Bowman 
                 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan 
                 
                 2008
                 James M. Guyette 
                 Dr. Alice Bourke Hayes 
                 Robert P. O’Meara 
                 Clifford W. Berglund 
                 Carol Lavin Bernick 
                 Robert O. and Jill A. Carr
                 
                 2007
                 Dr. Daniel Gutierrez 
                 Brother Konrad Diebold, FSC
                 Hon. Anne Burke 
                 Hon. Lawrence M. Walsh
                 Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ 
                 Dr. Lawrence A. Wyllie 
                 
                 2006
                 Paul J. Adams, III 
                 Brother Louis DeThomasis, FSC 
                 Bryan K. Foy, M.D. 
                 John A. Buck 
                 Chet Kondratowicz 
                 Rabi Sulayman, M.D.
                 
                 2005
                 Frank Turk, Jr. 
                 John D. “Jack” Goeken 
                 Kathy Kelly 
                 Dr. Michael H. Moskow 
                 Brig. Gen. Michael Mulqueen, USMC (Ret.)
                 Sister Catherine M. Ryan, O.S.F. 
                 
                 2004
                 Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin 
                 Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth 
                 Dr. Joseph R. Incandela 
                 David R. Mosena 
                 William J. Burns 
                 Brother Daniel F. Casey, FSC
                 
                 2003
                 Reverend Stanley L. Davis, Jr. 
                 Anselmo Calderon 
                 Lynne Thigpen (posthumously) 
                 Most Reverend Wilton D. Gregory 
                 Dr. Juan Andrade, Jr. 
                 Dr. Kenneth Packer
                 
                 2002
                 Dr. Monika Hellwig 
                 Dr. Arnold L. Mitchem
                 Barbara Gaines 
                 Dr. Philip R. Hogan 
                 Elmer W. Johnson 
                 
                 Brother Michael O’Hern, FSC 
                 Most Reverend John R. Gorman 
                 
                 2001
                 Dr. Lawrence Carter 
                 Monsignor John Egan
                 Chicago Police Supt. Terry G. Hillard
                 J. D. Ross 
                 Bill Kurtis 
                 George A. Ranney, Jr. 
                 Dr. Jay P. Dolan 
                 Margaret "Peggy" Roach 
                 
                 2000
                 Honorable Philip J. Rock 
                 Kevin Reardon 
                 
                 1999
                 Most Rev. Roger Schweitz, OMI 
                 Professor Emeritus John Lamb 
                 Brother James Zullo, FSC
                 
                 1998
                 Herbert Kelleher
                 Congressman William Lipinski 
                 Sister Rosemary Connelly, RSM
                 Brother Denis Murphy, FSC
                 
         
         
              
             
             
         	 
               
                       1997
                 Thomas Curley 
                 Sister Sheila Lyne, RSM 
                 Merri Dee                
             
             
                1996
                 Lt. Gov. Robert Kustra
                 Brother Basil Rothweiler, FSC 
                 Honorable Mary Ann McMorrow
                 Lowell P. Stahl 
                 
                 
                 1995
                 Thomas Skilling
                 Harold Finley
                 Dr. Raymond Pietak 
             1994
    Hazel Cheadle 
    Lois K. Benich, R.N., M.S.
    James J. O'Connor, M.B.A., J.D. 
    
               1993
                 Honorable George Sangmeister
                 Brother Terence McLaughlin, FSC
                 
                 1992
                 Sister Kathleen McIntyre, LCM
                 Harold E. White 
                 
                 1991
                 Ardis Krainik
                 Robert Galvin
                 Brother Paul Grass, FSC
                 
                 1990
                 Most Reverend Roger L. Kaffer
                 Brother Luke Salm, FSC 
                 Peter Kosiba
                 
                 1989
                 Brother Ambrose Groble, FSC 
                 John A. Oremus 
                 Richard Glenn Rutan 
                 Jeana Yeager 
                 
                 1988
                 Barbara Donnelley
                 Burt L. Rutan
                 
                 1987
                 Jaime Cardinal Sin 
                 Brother James Gaffney, FSC
                 Dr. Charles T. Cullen
                 
                 1986
                 Dorothy Mavrich 
                 William Pullinsi 
                 Most Reverend Joseph L. Imesch
                 Gerald Adelmann
                 Brother Francis Huether, FSC 
                 Philip Klutznick
                 Reverend Lawrence Martin Jenco
                 
                 1985
                 Brother John Johnston, FSC
                 Archbishop Pio Laghi 
                 Dr. George Schuster
                 Mayor John Bourg 
                 Dr. Lorin Nevling 
                 Ray Meyer 
                 Richard Granville Tompkins
                 
                 1984
                 Representative George O'Brien 
                 Gilbert Hennessey 
                 President Ronald Reagan 
                 
                 1983
                 Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
                 
                 1982
                 Arthur Rubloff 
                 John Powers 
                 
                 1981
                 Brother Pablo Basterrechea, FSC
                 Congressman Henry Hyde
                 Sir Colonel Ronald Gardner-Thorpe (Lord Mayor of London) 
                 
                 1980
                 Saint John Baptist de La Salle (Posthumously) 
                 Joseph Cornolo 
                 Sister Mary Frances Seeley, OSF 
                 
                 1979
                 Mrs. Lorraine L. Blair 
                 Brother Timothy M. Anderson, FSC
                 James P. Economos 
                 
                 1977
                 Dr. George DeTrana 
                 Mrs. Dorothea DeTrana 
                 William J. Sabo
                 
                 1976
                 John Waner 
                 
                 1975
                 Andrew Barber 
                 Ms. Carmen Maymi 
                 
                 1974
                 Dr. Harold McAninch 
                 Brother Bernard LoCoco, FSC
                 Professor Hiroshi Ushikubo 
                 
                 1973
                 Reverend John Brennan 
                 Matthew Stefanich, Sr.
                 
                 1972
                 Margaret Taylor Burroughs 
                 Frank Gospodaric 
                 Brother Alphonsus Pluth, FSC 
                 Brother George Kennedy, FSC
                 
                 1970
                 Reverend C. Albert Koob 
                 
                 1969
                 Milburn P. Akers 
                 Rabbi Morris M. Hershman
                 Dr. Joseph M. McDaniel, Jr. 
                 
                 1968
                 Gwendolyn Brooks
                 Hon. Michael J. Howlett 
                 Reverend Mother M. Borromeo, OSF 
                 
                 1967
                 Dr. Russell Harvey 
                 Honorable Richard J. Daley 
                 Bishop Romeo Blanchette 
                 Brother Leander Paul McGinnis, FSC
                 
                 1966
                 Archbishop John Patrick Cody 
                 Senator Everett M. Dirksen 
                 
                 1965
                 Dr. Philip S. Skell 
                 Dr. Jack Hine 
                 Chih-Fan Chen
                 
                 1964
                 Irving Crown 
                 
                 1963
                 Reverend Edward V. Stanford
                 Thomas F. Fabish 
                 
                 1962
                 Brother Joel Damian Wilhelm, FSC
                 Patrick D. Fahey 
                 
                 1961
                 Archbishop Bernard J. Sheil 
                 Bishop Martin D. McNamara 
                 Mrs. Frank J. 鶹ý 
                 
                 1955
                 Frank J. 鶹ý 
                 John R. 鶹ý
      
                  
               			   
                        
                
				
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