HONORIS CAUSA

• D.Agr. - Agriculture
• D.F.A. - Fine Arts
• D.Hum.Litt. - Humane Letters
• D.Mus. - Music
• D.Sc. - Science
• D.Sc. in Mil. Sci. - Military Science
• J.D. - Laws
• L.H.D. - Humanities
• Litt.D. - Letters
• LL.D. - Laws
  
  

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• 2009 Spring - Robert Challey (LL.D.)
• 2008 Winter - Maj. Gen. Terry L. Scherling (LL.D.), Maj. Gen. Darrol G. Schroeder (LL.D.)
• 2008 Spring - Judge Myron H. Bright (LL.D.), Dr. Calvin K. Fercho (D.Sc.)
• 2007 Winter - John S. Dean (D.Agr.), Sheldon Ellig (LL.D.), Harold Newman (LL.D)
• 2007 Spring - Frank Jennings (LL.D), James Meier (D.Sc.)
• 2006 Winter - Rusell F. Freeman (LL.D)
• 2006 Spring - Steve Swiontek (LL.D.)
• 2005 Spring - James Rosenquist (D.F.A.)
• 2004 Winter - General Charles F. Wald (LL.D.)
• 2003 Spring - Ian B. Edwards (D.Sc.), Michael E. Hanson (D.Sc.)
• 2002 Spring - John Q. Paulsen (LL.D.), Fred G. Paavola (D.Sc.)
• 2001 Winter - Byron Dorgan (LL.D.)
• 2001 Spring - Dr. A. Catherine Cater (D.F.A.), Dr. Evelyn R. Morrow Lebedeff (LL.D.)
  
• 2000 Winter - Ervin E. Kaiser (LL.D.)
• 2000 Spring - David W. Bernauer (D.Sc.), Douglas J. Burgum (LL.D.)
  
  
• 1999 Winter - Robert C. Dawson (LL.D.)
• 1999 Spring - Alf H. Clausen (D.Mus.), Dr. R. James Cook (D.Sc.)
• 1998 Winter - Dr. James M. Sugihara (D.Sc.)
• 1998 Spring - Lendal H. Kotschevar (LL.D.), Ronald D. Offutt (LL.D.)
• 1996 - Dr. Philip E. Austin (LL.D.)
• 1995 - Dr. Jack F. Carter (D.Sc.), Robert N. Spolum (LL.D.)
• 1994 - Jean Mason Guy (L.H.D.), Peter Schickele (D.F.A.)
• 1993 - Dr. Robert O. Brandenburg (D.Sc.), William C. Marcil (Litt.D.), George A. Sinner (L.H.D.)
• 1992 - Aldrich C. Bloomquist (D.Sc.), Harvey K. Nelson (D.Sc.), Art Bunker (LL.D.)
• 1991 - Lloyd Thompson (D.Sc.)
  
• 1990 - Warren B. Diederich (D.Sc.), Fred B. Scheel (LL.D.), William J. Grosz (D.Sc.), David M. Gipp (LL.D.), C. Warner Litten (LL.D.), Donald J. Kenna (D.Sc.), Harold J. Klosterman (D.Sc.), Anne Stegner (LL.D.), Glenn S. Smith (D.Sc.), Stanley W. Bale (D.Sc.)
  
  
• 1989 - Ernest G. Anderson (D.Sc.), Howard M. Olson (D.Sc.)
• 1988 - Dr. Marvin E. Jensen (D.Sc.), Glen J. Schoessow (D.Sc.)
• 1987 - Robert M. Hendrickson (LL.D.)
• 1986 - James H. Critchfield (D.Sc.), Richard P. Critchfield (L.H.D.), William A. Schlossman (LL.D.)
• 1985 - Edwin M. Anderson (D.Sc.), John H. Ladish (D.Sc.)
• 1984 - Brynhild Haugland (LL.D.)
• 1983 - John Rouzie (D.Hum.Litt.)
• 1982 - Katherine K. Burgum (D.Sc.), Dr. Robert W. Coon (D.Sc.)
• 1981 - M. Truman Fossum (D.Sc.), Louis L'Amour (Litt.D.), John L. McCormick, Jr. (LL.D.)
  
• 1980 - Quentin N. Burdick (LL.D.), Dr. Beverly Pfeifer Lynch (Litt.D.)
  
  
• 1979 - Roland F. Harding (D.Sc.)
• 1978 - Mark Andrews (LL.D.), Dr. David Schindler (D.Sc.)
• 1977 - Albert Doerr (D.Sc.), Harold Schafer (LL.D.), Larry Alfred Woiwode (Litt.D.)
• 1976 - Paul M. Gallagher (LL.D.), Thomas S. Kleppe (LL.D.), Satenig S. St.Marie (LL.D.)
• 1975 - Miss Peggy Lee (D.Mus.), Irwin R. Rector (D.Sc.)
• 1974 - Miss Mercedes Bates (D.Sc.), Dr. Reinhard Wolff (D.Sc.)
• 1973 - William L. Guy (LL.D.), Dr. G. Wilson Hunter (D.Sc.)
• 1972 - Dr. H. R. Albrecht (D.Sc.), Clyfford Still (D.F.A.)
• 1971 - Lawrence B. Hall (D.Sc.), George A. Rogler (D.Sc.)
  
• 1970 - Gilmore T. Schjeldahl (D.Sc.), Senator Milton R. Young (D.Sc.)
  
  
• 1969 - Clifford H. Willson (D.Sc.)
• During Inaugural, April 11, 1969 - Dr. Clifford M. Hardin (D.Sc.)
• 1968 - C. N. Nelson (D.Sc.), Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. (D.Sc.)
• 1967 - Patrick E. Haggerty (D.Sc.), Dr. E. F. Knipling (D.Sc.), Dr. Casper I. Nelson (D.Sc.), Dr. O. Meredith Wilson (L.H.D.)
• Special Convocation, December 15,1966 - General Harold K. Johnson (L.H.D.)
• 1966 - Harold B. Bachman (D.Mus.), Dr. Leon O. Jacobson (D.Sc.), Robert Pearson (D.Sc.), Glenn J. Talbott (D.Agr.), Vernon O. Trygstad (D.Sc.)
• 1965 - Dr. Marlin George Cline (D.Sc.), H. Christine Finlayson (D.Sc.), Justice Samuel Freedman (LL.D.), Lois Phillips Hudson (Litt.D.), Alvin A. Johnson (D.Agr.), Dr. Lyle W. Phillips (D.Sc.), Brig. Gen. Lawrence F. Tanberg (D.Sc.), Clarice Gullickson Taylor (D.Sc.), Lawrence Welk (D.Mus.)
• 1964 - Reuben W. Askanase (LL.D.), W. B. Baker (LL.D.), Ernest J. George (D.Sc.), Clarence F. Kelly (D.Sc.)
• 1963 - Dr. Irvamae Applegate (D.Sc.), Dr. Hilton M. Briggs (D.Sc.), Dr. Patrick H. Costello (D.Sc.), Dr. James Scott Long (D.Sc.)
• 1962 - Charles E. Kellogg (D.Sc.), H. H. Flor (D.Sc.), George E. Abbott (D.Sc.), Edward A. Steinhaus (D.Sc.)
• 1961 - E. J. Haslerud (D.Sc.)
  
• 1960 - T. E. Stoa (D.Sc.), Robert B. Parrott (LL.D.)
  
  
• 1959 - Donald Fletcher (D.Sc.), James B. Konen (D.Sc.)
• 1958 - Dr. Melvin Brodshaug (Litt.D.), Duke de Vallombrosa (LL.D.)
• 1957 - John Haw (D.Sc.)
• 1956 - Roy Johnson (D.Sc.)
• 1955 - Dean W. F. Sudro (D.Sc.), Newell P. Beckwith (D.Sc.)
• 1954 - Dean R. M. Dolve (D.Sc.)
• 1953 - Dr. H. L. Walster (D.Sc.)
• 1952 - D. Milton Ladd (LL.D.)
• 1951 - Clyde H. Bailey (D.Sc.)
  
• 1950 - J. L. Coulter (D.Sc.), Alex Lind (LL.D.)
  
  
• 1949 - Jack Pyle (LL.D.), Dr. F. L. Hovde (LL.D.)
• 1948 - O. A. Stevens (D.Sc.)
• 1946 - Dr. L. Van Es (D.Agr.)
• 1943 - Maj. Gen. James A. Ulio (D.Sc. in Mil. Sci.)
• 1940 - Arni Helgeson (D.Agr.), George Will (D.Sc.), Philip S. Rose (D.Agr.), M. L. Wilson (D.Agr.), Henry H. Kildee (D.Agr.)
• 1939 - Dean H. L. Bolley (D.Agr.), C. B. Waldron (D.Agr.)
  
  

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