Select Commencement Speakers

1952 Robert Whitney Bolwell

1957 Ward Darley

1960 Alec Horwitz (School of Medicine)

1961 Calvin Darlington Linton, James E. Webb

1962 Glenn T. Seaborg

1963 Henery Townley Heald, William C. Foster

1964 John W. McCormak, John W. McCormack, William J. Brennan, Jr., Oswald Colclough

1965 John Mathews

1967 Elmer Louis Kayser, Patrick Dean, Barnaby Keeney

1968 George Winchester Stone, Jr., Kingman Brewster, Jr.

1969 Earl Warren, Harold Leverthal (National Law Center), Edmund Sixtus Muskie

1970 Judson Graves Randolph (School of Medicine), Mayor Walter Washington, William Thomas Pecora, Stephen Russell Woodzell, Judson Hartman Elliot, Mildred Sandison Fenner

1971 Juliius Axelrod, Ernst Webber, Rashi Fein (School of Medicine), Harold Frederick Bright

1972 L. Patrick Gray III, Paul Grant Rogers (School of Medicine), Joseph Davies Tydings (School of Medicine), Samuel James Ervin, Jr.

1973 John Rusten Hogness (School of Medicine), Nancy Hanks, Arthur Frank Burns

1974 Albert Bruce Sabin, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (School of Medicine), Leon Jaworski (National Law Center), Ronald Berman

1975 Dan Rather (National Law Center), Dean Rusk, James William Fulbright, Lewis Thomas (School of Medicine), James Patrick Gibbons, Jr., Millicent Hammond Fenwick

1976 Charles Johnston Hitch, John Patrick Walsh, Sidney Dillon Ripley, Rosario Beringueluy, Roderick MacLeish, David Lloyd Kreeger, Theodore Cooper (School of Medicine), Edward George Uhl, Mark O. Hatfield, Harry McPherson (National Law Center)

1977 Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, Dave Darland, James Pierci Chambers, Warren Bennis, Dweight David Darland, Frank Nelson Miller, Jr. (School of Medicine), Sarah Tilghman Hughes (National Law Center), Gilbert, James Arthur Robinson

1978 John Philip Whalen, Franz Joseph Ingelfinger (School of Medicine), Mortimer Maxwell Caplin (National Law Center), Neville Kanakaratne, J. Carter Brown

1979 Colin M. Turnbull, Wade Hampton McCree, Jr. (National Law Center), Lee A. Iacocca, Harold A. Wheeler, Lisle C. Carter, David Lionel Bazelon, Wade H. McCree, Jr., Paul Grant Rogers

1980 Carl Thomas Rowan, Irving Kristol, Sam W. Brown (National Law Center), Grift Terry Ross (School of Medicine), Thomas K. Minter

1981 Captain Grace Murray Hopper, Charles McC. Mathias, Jr., Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr., Warren Earl Burger (National Law Center), J. Antonio Edosso, H. Guyrord Stever, Elliot Richardson, Helen Caldicott (School of Medicine)

1982 John Willard Marriott, Jr., Robert Sargent Shriver (National Law Center), Norman Cousins

1983 John A.D. Cooper (School of Medicine), Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, Peter G. Peterson

1984 Silvio Ottavio Conte, James M. Shannon (National Law Center), Vincent Theodore DeVita, Jr. (School of Medicine), Henry Gabriel Cisneros

1985 Donald S. Frederickson (School of Medicine), Harold Herman Greene (National Law Center), Victor Kermit Kiam II, Stephen Scott Bell

1986 Charles Spittal Robb (National Law Center), William Hodding Carter III, James Barnes Wyngaarden (School of Medicine)

1987 Alex Zwerdling, Richard Saxon Snell (School of Medicine), Robert William Packwood, Daniel Ken Inouye

1988 Maurice King Udall (National Law Center), T. Bone Pickens Jr., Susan King (School Without Walls), Samuel Osiah Thier (School of Medicine)

1989 Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, Dick Thornburgh, Louis Wade Sullivan (School of Medicine)

1990 Colin Powell, George Mitchell, Leighton Eggertson Cluff, Lawrence Douglas Wilder (National Law Center)

1991 Sharon Pratt Dixon (Law School), C. Everett Koop (School of Medicine)

1992 William P. Barr (Law School),  David A. Kessler (School of Medicine)

1993 Donna Shalala

1994 Hillary Rodman Clinton, Joyce Hens Green (Law School)

1995 Elizabeth Dole, Harry A. Blackmun (Law School)

1996 Francis S. Collins

1997 Bill Cosby, Joseph F. Baca (Law School)

1998 Robert S. Dole, Eric H. Holder, Sr. (Law School)

1999 Anthony A. Williams (Law School), Desmond M. Tutu

2000 Madeleine Korbel Albright, William H. Rehnquist (Law School)

2001 Herman Wouk, Janet Reno (Law School)

2002 Ruth J. Simmons, George Mitchell (Law School)

2003 Gov. Mark Warner, Sandra Day O'Conner (Law School)

2004 Thomas Buergenthal (Law School), Adam Greenman and L. Trenton Marsh (students)

2005 Andy Rooney, Harry Reid (Law School)

2006 George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, Dan Glickman (Law School)