Honorary Degree Recipients

Lehman College has presented honorary degrees to eighty-three distinguished men and women from a variety of fields, including the arts, law, medicine, business, education, diplomacy, human rights, and public service.

 

2024
Joseph “Fat Joe” Cartagena

Doctor of Humane Letters

Jennie Elizabeth Franklin

Doctor of Letters

 

2023

 

2021

  • Eliot Engel ’69, ’73, Doctor of Laws
  • T.J. English, Doctor of Letters
  • Dolores Huerta, Doctor of Humane Letters

2020

  • Dr. Oxiris Barbot, Doctor of Science
  • Bobby Sanabria, Doctor of Music

2019

  • Mildred García, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Whitfield Lovell, Doctor of Fine Arts
  • Ivan G. Seidenberg ’72, Doctor of Humane Letters

2018

  • Jacob Judd, Doctor of Humane Letters

2017

  • Dr. Jeffrey Gilbert ’72, Doctor of Science
  • Eddie Palmieri, Doctor of Music
  • Betty A. Rosa, Doctor of Humane Letters

2016

  • David González, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Sonia Manzano, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Mark Messier, Doctor of Humane Letters

2015

  • Tonio Burgos, Doctor of Laws
  • Micki Grant ’94, Doctor of Fine Arts
  • Jaime Lucero, Doctor of Commercial Science

2014

  • William Aguado, Doctor of Arts
  • Michael J. Balick, Doctor of Science
  • Valerie S. Capers, Doctor of Music

2013

  • Frances Beinecke, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Fernando Picó, Doctor of Humane Letters

2012

  • Albert P. Carey, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Karen Musalo, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Shirley Rodríguez-Remeneski, Doctor of Humane Letters

2011

  • Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, Doctor of Laws
  • Johnny Pacheco, Doctor of Music
  • Erasto Torres, Doctor of Commercial Science

2010

  • Mark C. Pigott, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Elena V. Ríos, Doctor of Science
  • Nina Sundell, Doctor of Fine Arts

2009

  • Steve Mirsky, Doctor of Science
  • William M. Wheeler, Doctor of Humane Letters

2008

  • Margaret K. Bruce, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Woodie King Jr., ’96, Doctor of Humane Letters

2007

  • Judith Ortiz Cofer, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Spencer Foreman, Doctor of Science
  • Adam Guettel, Doctor of Music
  • Judith Malina, Doctor of Fine Arts
  • Peter D. Roos, Doctor of Humane Letters

2006

  • Tatsuo Tanaka, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Dave Valentín, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Lucius Walker Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Jody Williams, Doctor of Humane Letters

2005

  • Elias Karmon, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Olara Otunnu, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Deborah C. Wright, Doctor of Humane Letters

2004

  • Willie Colón, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Hugh B. Price, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Dr. Sorosh Roshan, Doctor of Science

2003

  • Ricardo E. Alegría, Doctor of Arts
  • Arnold L. Mitchem, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Louis Sito, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Marta Tienda, Doctor of Humane Letters

2002

  • June Bingham Birge, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Fernando Ferrer, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Joseph N. Hankin, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Leonel Fernández Reyna, Doctor of Laws

2001

  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Doctor of Humane Letters

2000

  • Rubén Blades, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Serafin U. Mariel, Doctor of Humane Letters

1999

  • Edward D. Miller, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Sonia Sotomayor, Doctor of Laws

1998

  • José A. Cárdenas, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Orin Lehman, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Ernest W. Michel, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Ghillean T. Prance
  • Bill Richardson

1997

  • Glen T. Nygreen, Doctor of Humane Letters

1996

  • Leonard Lief, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Samuel Sanders, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Javier Tejada, Doctor of Science
  • Graciela Rivera de Zumchak, Doctor of Humane Letters

1995

  • David Levering Lewis, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • Anne A. Paolucci, Doctor of Humane Letters

1994

  • Maryse Condé, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • César A. Perales, Doctor of Laws
  • Mario G. Salvadori, Doctor of Humane Letters

1993

  • Maristella de Panizza Lorch, Doctor of Humane Letters

1992

  • Paule Burke Marshall, Doctor of Humane Letters
  • John Patterson Jr., Doctor of Laws
  • Robert C. Weaver, Doctor of Humane Letters