Commencement Speakers
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Select Commencement Speakers
1952:Robert Whitney Bolwell
1957:Ward Darley
1960:School of Medicine: Dr. Alec Horwitz
1961:Calvin Darlington Linton
1961:James E. Webb
1962:Glenn T. Seaborg
1963:Henery Townley Heald
1963:William C. Foster
1964:John W. McCormak
1964:The Honorable John W. McCormack
1964:William J. Brennan, Jr.
1964:Oswald Colclough
1965:John Mathews
1967:Elmer Louis Kayser
1967:Sir Patrick Dean
1967:Barnaby Keeney
1968:George Winchester Stone, Jr.
1968:Kingman Brewster, Jr.
1969:Earl Warren
1969:National Law Center: Honorable Harold Leverthal
1969:The Honorable Edmund Sixtus Muskie
1970:School of Medicine: Judson Graves Randolph
1970:Mayor Walter Washington
1970:William Thomas Pecora
1970:Stephen Russell Woodzell
1970:Judson Hartman Elliot
1970:Mildred Sandison Fenner
1971:Dr. Juliius Axelrod
1971:Ernst Webber
1971:School of Medicine: Rashi Fein
1971:Harold Frederick Bright
1972:L. Patrick Gray III
1972:School of Medicine: The Honorable Paul Grant Rogers
1972:School of Medicine: The Honorable Joseph Davies Tydings
1972:The Honorable Samuel James Ervin, Jr.
1973:School of Medicine: John Rusten Hogness
1973:Nancy Hanks
1973:The Honorable arthur Frank Burns
1974:Albert Bruce Sabin
1974:School of Medicine: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
1974:National Law Center: Leon Jaworski
1974:Ronald Berman
1975:National Law Center: Dan Rather
1975:The Honorable Dean Rusk
1975:The Honorable James William Fulbright
1975:School of Medicine: Lewis Thomas
1975:James Patrick Gibbons, Jr
1975:The Honorable Millicent Hammond Fenwick
1976:Charles Johnston Hitch
1976:John Patrick Walsh
1976:Sidney Dillon Ripley
1976:Rosario Beringueluy
1976:Roderick MacLeish
1976:David Lloyd Kreeger
1976:School of Medicine: Theodore Cooper
1976:Edward George Uhl
1976:Mark O. Hatfield
1976:National Law Center: The Honorable Harry McPherson
1977:Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox
1977:Dave Darland
1977:James Pierci Chambers
1977:Warren Bennis
1977:Dweight David Darland
1977:School of Medicine: Frank Nelson Miller, Jr.
1977:National Law Center: The Honorable Sarah Tilghman Hughes
1977:The Honorable Gilbert
1977:James Arthur Robinson
1978:The Reverend John Philip Whalen
1978:School of Medicine: Franz Joseph Ingelfinger
1978:National Law Center: The Honorable Mortimer Maxwell Caplin
1978:His Excellency Neville Kanakaratne
1979:Colin M. Turnbull
1979:National Law Center: The Honorable Wade Hampton McCree, Jr.
1979:Lee A. Iacocca
1979:Harold A. Wheeler
1979:Dr. Harold A. Wheeler
1979:Lisle C. Carter
1979:David Lionel Bazelon
1979:Wade H. McCree, Jr
1979:The Honorable Paul Grant Rogers
1980:Carl Thomas Rowan
1980:Irving Kristol
1980:National Law Center: The Honorable Sam W. Brown
1980:School of Medicine: Grift Terry Ross
1980:Thomas K. Minter
1981:Captain Grace Murray Hooper
1981:Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
1981:The Honorable Charles McCurdy Mathias, Jr
1981:National Law Center: The Honorable Warren Earl Burger
1981:J. Antonio Edosso
1981:H. Guyrord Stever
1981:Elliot Richardson
1981:School of Medicine: Helen Caldicott, M.D.
1982:John Willard Marriott, Jr.
1982:National Law Center: The Honorable Robert Sargent Shriver
1982:Norman Cousins
1983:School of Medicine: John A.D. Cooper
1983:Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil
1983:Peter G. Peterson
1984:The Honorable Silvio Ottavio Conte
1984:National Law Center: The Honorable James M. Shannon
1984:School of Medicine: Vincent Theodore DeVita, Jr.
1984:The Honorable Henry Gabriel Cisneros
1985:School of Medicine: Donald S. Frederickson
1985:National Law Center: Harold Herman Greene
1985:Victor Kermit Kiam II
1985:Stephen Scott Bell
1986:National Law Center: Charles Spittal Robb
1986:William Hodding Carter III
1986:School of Medicine: James Barnes Wyngaarden
1987:Alex Zwerdling
1987:School of Medicine: Richard Saxon Snell
1987:Robert William Packwood
1987:Daniel Ken Inouye
1988:National Law Center: Maurice King Udall
1988:T. Bone Pickens Jr.
1988:Susan King (School without walls)
1988:School of Medicine: Samuel Osiah Thier
1989:Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft
1989:The Honorable Dick Thornburgh
1989:School of Medicine: Louis Wade Sullivan
1990:Colin Luther Powell
1990:George John Mitchell
1990:Leighton Eggertson Cluff
1990:National Law Center: Lawrence Douglas Wilder
1991:Law School: Sharon Pratt Dixon
1991:School of Medicine: C. Everett Koop
1992: Law School: William P. Barr
1992:School of Medicine: David A. Kessler
1993:Donna Edna Shalala
1994:Hillary Rodman Clinton
1994:Law School: Joyce Hens Green
1995:Elizabeth Dole
1995:Law School: Harry A. Blackmun
1996:Francis S. Collins
1997:Bill Cosby
1997: Law School: Joseph F. Baca
1998:Robert S. Dole
1998:Law School: Eric H. Holder, Sr.
1999:Law School: Anthony A. Williams
1999:The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu
2000:Madeleine Korbel Albright
2000:Law School: William H. Rehnquist
2001:Herman Wouk
2001:Law School: Janet Reno
2002:Ruth J. Simmons
2002:Law School: George Mitchell
2003:Gov. Mark Warner
2003:Law School: Sandra Day O'Conner
2004:Law School: Thomas Buergenthal
2004: Adam Greenman and L. Trenton Marsh (students)
2005: Andy Rooney
2005: Law School: Harry Reid
2006: President George H.W. Bush
2006: Barbara Pierce Bush
2006: Law School: Dan Glickman
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