Honorary Degrees Bestowed by Lewis University

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. Lewis

1955

Frank J. Lewis
John R. Lewis