List of Mills College honorary degree recipients

List of Mills College, Oakland, California, U.S.A., honorary degree recipients:

• 2011 – Janet L. Holmgren[1]
• 2011 – May Ohmura Watanabe
• 2010 – Dolores Huerta[2]
• 2010 – Nancy Pelosi[3]
• 2010 – Betty Wo
• 2009 – Stephanie Mills[4]
• 2009 – Kavita Ramdas[5]
• 2009 – Renel Brooks-Moon '81[6]
• 2008 – Glenn Voyles[7]
• 2008 – Rita Moreno[8]
• 2007 – Shirley M. Tilghman
• 2007 – Roselyne Chroman Swig[9]
• 2006 – Barbara Boxer[10]
• 2005 – Vivian M. Stephenson
• 2005 – Ronald V. Dellums[11]
• 2004 – Lorry I. Lokey[12]
• 2004 – Pauline Oliveros
• 2003 – Lois De Domenico
• 2003 – Earl F. Cheit
• 2003 – Eleanor Holmes Norton
• 2002 – Thoraya Ahmed Obaid '66[13]
• 2001 – Antonia Hernández
• 2001 – Suzanne Adams
• 2000 – Herma Hill Kay
• 2000 – Mary Catherine Bateson
• 2000 – Isabel Allende[14]
• 1999 – Barbara Lee '73
• 1999 – Lenore Blum
• 1999 – Johnnetta Cole
• 1998 – Eleanor Hadley '38
• 1998 – Anita L. DeFrantz
• 1997 – Trisha Brown
• 1997 – Chang-Lin Tien
• 1997 – Evelyn Cisneros
• 1996 – Marian Wright Edelman
• 1995 – Tillie Olsen
• 1995 – Paula Gunn Allen
• 1994 – Alice Waters
• 1994 – Angela Glover Blackwell
• 1994 – Dennis A. Collins
• 1993 – Margaret Wentworth Owings
• 1993 – Eugene E. Trefethen, Jr.
• 1992 – Kathleen Brown
• 1992 – Jane Newhall '36
• 1992 – Wilma Mankiller
• 1992 – Virginia B. Smith
• 1991 – Beate Sirota Gordon '43
• 1990 – Carolyn Kizer
• 1989 – April Glaspie
• 1988 – Lou Harrison
• 1987 – Madeleine Milhaud
• 1986 – Rosalyn Yalow
• 1986 – Jennifer Losch Bartlett '63
• 1985 – Dianne Feinstein
• 1985 – Anna Jane Harrison
• 1984 – Sylvia F. Porter
• 1984 – Mary E. Lanigar '38
• 1982 – Ansel Adams
• 1982 – Dave Brubeck[15]
• 1980 – Esther R. Landa '33, MA '37
• 1978 – James David Hart
• 1977 – Carla Anderson Hills
• 1976 – Constance Wong Ong (Jade Snow Wong) '42
• 1976 – Robert Joseph Wert
• 1975 – Maya Angelou
• 1975 – Imogen Cunningham[16]
• 1974 – Mary Woods Bennett
• 1973 – Leslie Langnecker Luttgens
• 1973 – Laura Thompson '27
• 1973 – Eugene Edgar Trefethen, Jr.
• 1972 – Richard Wall Lyman
• 1972 – Mary Louise James O'Brien
• 1970 – William Parmer Fuller Brawner
• 1969 – Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer
• 1968 – Walter Abraham Haas
• 1968 – Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser
• 1967 – Kathryn Grove Shipp
• 1967 – Camille Mermod
• 1967 – Dixy Lee Ray
• 1967 – Darius Milhaud
• 1967 – Charles Easton Rothwell
• 1967 – John Ewart Wallace Sterling
• 1966 – Marian Anderson
• 1966 – Martha Graham
• 1965 – Bernhard Blume
• 1965 – Claire Giannini Hoffman
• 1965 – Josephine Miles
• 1965 – Maurine Brown Neuberger
• 1964 – Dorothy Bullitt
• 1964 – Constantinos Arostolou Doxiadis
• 1964 – Sir George Bailey Sansom
• 1964 – General Lauris Norstad
• 1963 – Kate Hevner Mueller
• 1963 – Virginia Foisie Rusk
• 1963 – Ei Komada
• 1963 – Phillips Talbot
• 1962 – Katherine Esau
• 1962 – Herbert Edwin Hall
• 1962 – George Frederick Reinhardt
• 1962 – Emma Moffat McLaughlin
• 1961 – Charlotte D'Evelyn
• 1961 – Margaret Habein
• 1961 – Edith R. Mirrielees
• 1961 – Luis Monguio
• 1960 – Edith Margaret Coulter
• 1960 – William Leonard Langer
• 1960 – Wendell Meredith Stanley
• 1959 – Cora Du Bois
• 1958 – Angela Diller
• 1958 – Georgia Elma Harkness
• 1958 – John Edwin Pomfret
• 1958 – Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
• 1957 – Margaret Chase Smith
• 1957 – Pearl Anderson Wanamaker
• 1956 – George Keith Funston
• 1955 – Helenor Campbell Wilder Foerster
• 1955 – Edwin Grabhorn
• 1955 – Agnes Ernst Meyer
• 1954 – Katherine Fleming Branson
• 1954 – Detlev Wulf Bronk
• 1954 – Warren Olney III
• 1953 – Flora Belle Ludington
• 1953 – Marjorie Hope Nicolson
• 1952 – Agnes George DeMille
• 1952 – Lillian Moller Gilbreth
• 1952 – Elinor Raas Heller
• 1952 – Ruth Marian Leach
• 1952 – Patricia Newcomb
• 1952 – Georgia O'Keeffe
• 1952 – Helen Crocker Russell
• 1952 – Esther Dayman Strong
• 1952 – Katherine Amelia Towle
• 1951 – Lotte Lehmann
• 1951 – Stephen Fielding Bayne, Jr.
• 1951 – William Fife Knowland
• 1950 – Cornelia Otis Skinner
• 1950 – Jessamyn West
• 1950 – Annette Abbott Adams
• 1950 – Rosalind Cassidy
• 1949 – Sarah Gibson Blanding
• 1949 – Earl Warren
• 1949 – Alice Tisdale Hobart
• 1949 – Dorothy McCullough Lee
• 1948 – Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong
• 1948 – Dorothy Wright Liebes Morin
• 1948 – David Dean Rusk
• 1947 – Louis Booker Wright
• 1947 – Lily Ross Taylor
• 1947 – Gabriela Mistral
• 1946 – Vera Brittain
• 1946 – Edward Lambe Parsons
• 1946 – Mary Yost
• 1945 – Esther Caukin Brunauer
• 1945 – Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
• 1945 – Florence Horsbrugh
• 1945 – Bertha Lutz
• 1945 – Wu Yi-fang
• 1945 – Herbert Vere Evatt
• 1944 – German Arciniogas
• 1944 – Mabel Ray Gillis
• 1944 – Erico Vorissimo
• 1943 – Aurelia Henry Reinhardt
• 1943 – Robert Gordon Sproul
• 1943 – Marian Long Stebbins
• 1943 – Cornelia McKinney Stanwood
• 1942 – Leonora Wood Armsby
• 1942 – June Richardson Lucas
• 1942 – Emma Moffat McLaughlin
• 1942 – Hattie Hecht Sloss
• 1942 – Jade Wong Wu
• 1941 – Michi Kawai
• 1940 – Dexter Morriam Keezer
• 1940 – Frederic William Goudy
• 1940 – Pearl Chase
• 1939 – Eve Curie
• 1939 – Louise Arner Boyd
• 1939 – Althea Warren
• 1939 – Pierre Monteux
• 1939 – Dorothy Macardle
• 1938 – Mary Emma Woolley
• 1938 – Antonia Brico
• 1937 – Olga Bridgman
• 1937 – Yves Mario De Bellefon
• 1937 – Robert French Leavens
• 1937 – Anna Cox Brinton
• 1937 – Charles Reynolds Brown
• 1937 – William Edward Colby
• 1937 – Monroe Emanuel Deutsch
• 1937 – Katharine Folton
• 1937 – Susan Myra Kingsbury
• 1937 – Grace McCann Morley
• 1937 – Maude Royden
• 1937 – Roswell Gray Ham
• 1936 – Frederick Morgan Padelford
• 1936 – Jules Romains
• 1935 – Robert Andrews Killikan
• 1935 – Gertrude Atherton
• 1935 – Jessica Blanche Peixotto
• 1934 – Herman Phleger
• 1934 – Clelia Duel Mosher
• 1934 – Joseph R. Knowland
• 1934 – Albert Bender
• 1933 – Frederic Logan Parson
• 1933 – Lucy Ward Stebbins
• 1933 – Kathleen Parlow
• 1933 – Sara Bard Field
• 1932 – Dorothy Frances Wilson
• 1932 – Adelaide Brown
• 1932 – Emily Wilson
• 1931 – Robert Dollar
• 1931 – William Bennet Munro
• 1931 – Caroline Hazard
• 1931 – Sara Margery Fry
• 1929 – Charles Henry Rieber
• 1928 – Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
• 1928 – Mary Hunter Austin
• 1927 – Mary Roberts Coolidge
• 1927 – Edwin Markham
• 1925 – Norman Frank Coleman
• 1925 – Clara Bradley Burdette
• 1925 – William Frederic Badè
• 1925 – William Andrews Clark, Jr.
• 1925 – Hettie Belle Ege
• 1925 – Albert Maurice Bender
• 1925 – David Prescott Barrows
• 1925 – Luella Clay Carson
• 1923 – Melville Best Anderson
• 1923 – Ina Donna Coolbrith
• 1923 – Lou Henry Hoover
• 1923 – Bernard Ralph Maybeck
• 1923 – John Henry Nash
• 1920 – Lucinda Wyman Prince
• 1903 – Jane Cordelia Tolman
• 1902 – Emma Wixom Palmer
• 1902 – Louis Lisser

See also

• Mills College

References

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