
Select Commencement Speakers
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1952
Robert Whitney Bolwell
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1957
Ward Darley
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1960
Alec Horwitz (School of Medicine)
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1961
Calvin Darlington Linton, James E. Webb
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1962
Glenn T. Seaborg
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1963
Henery Townley Heald, William C. Foster
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1964
John W. McCormak, John W. McCormack, William J. Brennan, Jr., Oswald Colclough
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1965
John Mathews
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1967
Elmer Louis Kayser, Patrick Dean, Barnaby Keeney
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1968
George Winchester Stone, Jr., Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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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
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1971
Juliius Axelrod, Ernst Webber, Rashi Fein (School of Medicine), Harold Frederick Bright
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1972
L. Patrick Gray III, Paul Grant Rogers (School of Medicine), Joseph Davies Tydings (School of Medicine), Samuel James Ervin, Jr.
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1973
John Rusten Hogness (School of Medicine), Nancy Hanks, Arthur Frank Burns
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1974
Albert Bruce Sabin, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (School of Medicine), Leon Jaworski (National Law Center), Ronald Berman
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1975
Dan Rather (National Law Center), Dean Rusk, James William Fulbright, Lewis Thomas (School of Medicine), James Patrick Gibbons, Jr., Millicent Hammond Fenwick
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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)
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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
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1978
John Philip Whalen, Franz Joseph Ingelfinger (School of Medicine), Mortimer Maxwell Caplin (National Law Center), Neville Kanakaratne, J. Carter Brown
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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
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1980
Carl Thomas Rowan, Irving Kristol, Sam W. Brown (National Law Center), Grift Terry Ross (School of Medicine), Thomas K. Minter
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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)
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1982
John Willard Marriott, Jr., Robert Sargent Shriver (National Law Center), Norman Cousins
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1983
John A.D. Cooper (School of Medicine), Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, Peter G. Peterson
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1984
Silvio Ottavio Conte, James M. Shannon (National Law Center), Vincent Theodore DeVita, Jr. (School of Medicine), Henry Gabriel Cisneros
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1985
Donald S. Frederickson (School of Medicine), Harold Herman Greene (National Law Center), Victor Kermit Kiam II, Stephen Scott Bell
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1986
Charles Spittal Robb (National Law Center), William Hodding Carter III, James Barnes Wyngaarden (School of Medicine)
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1987
Alex Zwerdling, Richard Saxon Snell (School of Medicine), Robert William Packwood, Daniel Ken Inouye
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1988
Maurice King Udall (National Law Center), T. Bone Pickens Jr., Susan King (School Without Walls), Samuel Osiah Thier (School of Medicine)
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1989
Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, Dick Thornburgh, Louis Wade Sullivan (School of Medicine)
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1990
Colin Powell, George Mitchell, Leighton Eggertson Cluff, Lawrence Douglas Wilder (National Law Center)
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1991
Sharon Pratt Dixon (Law School), C. Everett Koop (School of Medicine)
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1992
William P. Barr (Law School), David A. Kessler (School of Medicine)
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1993
Donna Shalala
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1994
Hillary Rodman Clinton, Joyce Hens Green (Law School)
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1995
Elizabeth Dole, Harry A. Blackmun (Law School)
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1996
Francis S. Collins
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1997
Bill Cosby, Joseph F. Baca (Law School)
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1998
Robert S. Dole, Eric H. Holder, Sr. (Law School)
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1999
Anthony A. Williams (Law School), Desmond M. Tutu
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2000
Madeleine Korbel Albright, William H. Rehnquist (Law School)
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2001
Herman Wouk, Janet Reno (Law School)
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2002
Ruth J. Simmons, George Mitchell (Law School)
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2003
Gov. Mark Warner, Sandra Day O'Conner (Law School)
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2004
Thomas Buergenthal (Law School), Adam Greenman and L. Trenton Marsh (students)
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2005
Andy Rooney, Harry Reid (Law School)
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2006
George H.W. Bush, Barbara Bush, Dan Glickman (Law School)