Honorary Degree Recipients
| 2008 | James T. Morris, Doctor of Laws |
| 2007 | Matilda J. Barber, Doctor of Humane Letters Ronald V. Duncan, BA '68, Doctor of Divinity Cheryl J. Sanders, Doctor of Divinity Elizabeth Harp York, '52, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 | Martin D. Grubbs, BA '81, Doctor of Divinity Dorothy Nelis Nicholson, BS '46, Doctor of Letters John S. Pistole, BA '78, Doctor of Laws Gwyn Richards, Doctor of Music |
| 2005 | James F. Ault, Doctor of Laws Robert O. Dulin, Jr., BA '63, Doctor of Divinity Anne Ryder, Doctor of Letters |
| 2004 | Verda E. Beach, Doctor of Divinity Larry G. Osnes, BS '63, Doctor of Humane Letters Tom L. Ward, Doctor of Laws |
| 2003 | Dondeena F. Caldwell, BA '49, Doctor of Divinity M. Maurice Caldwell, Doctor of Divinity Louis E. Gerig, BA '68, Doctor of Laws Martin C. Jischke, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2002 | David L. Coolidge, BS '57, Doctor of Sacred Music Shirley King Coolidge, BS '60, Doctor of Sacred Music Jean Ratzlaff Johnson, BS '52, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2001 | Dalineta L. Hines, Doctor of Divinity Cleopatra Myricks-Graham, Doctor of Sacred Music Gene W. Newberry, BTh '38, Doctor of Divinity Judith A. O'Bannon, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2000 | Melvyn F. Hester, BA '61, Doctor of Divinity E. Stanley Kardatzke, BA '61, Doctor of Humane Letters Rick R. Little, '75, Doctor of Humane Letters Geraldine E. Hurst Reardon, BA '67, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1999 | Jay A. Barber, Jr., Doctor of Laws Sethard A. Beverly, BTh '54, Doctor of Humane Letters Jay L. Kesler, Doctor of Letters Philip L. Kinley, BA '52 & MDiv '55, Doctor of Divinity Phyllis Gillespie Kinley, BS '52, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1998 | Norman E. Beard, BS '55 & MDiv '58, Doctor of Humane Letters Lee Hamilton, Doctor of Laws C. Dan Harden, BA '55 & MDiv '58, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1997 | Eugene B. Habecker, Doctor of Divinity Gertrude E. Wunsch, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1996 | Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., Doctor of Laws William H. Hardacre, Doctor of Laws Mary Holliday Morgan, MA '79, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1995 | Ralph W. Hatch, BA '53, Doctor of Divinity James Earl Massey, Doctor of Letters |
| 1994 | Evan Bayh, Doctor of Laws Leland E. Boren, Doctor of Laws Arthur M. Kelly, Doctor of Humane Letters Ozie G. Wattleton, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1993 | John T. Olds, BA '39 & BTh '40, Doctor of Divinity M. Richard Rose, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 | Cleveland E. Grant, Doctor of Divinity Arlo F. Newell, BA '50, Doctor of Letters |
| 1991 | Raymond E. Cotton, Doctor of Divinity Sandra F. Patty, BA '79, Doctor of Music Rudolph Smith, Doctor of Letters |
| 1990 | Robert A. Nicholson, BS '44, Doctor of Laws |
| 1989 | Larry D. Contos, Doctor of Laws Robert A. Culp, BA '57 & BDiv '61, Doctor of Divinity Gloria Sickal Gaither, BS '63, Doctor of Letters Sidney M. Johnson, BTh '52 & MDiv '55, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1988 | Myron S. Augsburger, Doctor of Laws Doris J. Dale, Doctor of Humane Letters Oral C. Withrow, BA '55 & MDiv '61, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1987 | Steven C. Beering, Doctor of Science Philip S. Cooper, Doctor of Laws Hattie Downer, Doctor of Divinity Richard C. Halverson, Doctor of Humane Letters Louis P. Meyer, BS '45, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1986 | Ronald J. Fowler, MDiv '66, Doctor of Divinity H. Wilber Hardacre, Doctor of Laws Coretta Scott King, Doctor of Humane Letters Fidel Zamorano, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1985 | Arthur R. Eikamp, BA '43, Doctor of Letters Louis H. Evans, Jr., Doctor of Humane Letters W. Shirell Fox, BA '50, Doctor of Laws Samuel G. Hines, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1984 | Charles W. Colson, Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1983 | Robert Horman Reardon, BA '40, Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 | Helen D. Canaday, Doctor of Laws Edward P. Czapor, Doctor of Laws William H. Hudnut, III, Doctor of Laws Benjamin F. Reid, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1981 | Milo L. Chapman, BTh '39, Doctor of Letters Walter M. Doty, BA '39, Doctor of Letters J. Horace Germany, BTh '44, Doctor of Letters Leslie W. Ratzlaff, BA '40 & BTh '41, Doctor of Letters |
| 1980 | Esther Boyer Kirkpatrick Bauer, BTh '30, Doctor of Divinity Fouad B. Melki, Doctor of Divinity Donald A. Noffsinger, Doctor of Laws |
| 1979 | Charles H. Webb, Doctor of Music |
| 1978 | G. David Cox, BA '55 & MDiv '58, Doctor of Divinity John Nelson, Doctor of Music Helen Martin Achor Shoemaker, BA '60, Doctor of Laws Marie Strong, BS '45, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1977 | Cauthion Tilmon Boyd, BTh '44, Doctor of Divinity Leroy Marcus Fulton, BA '53 & MDiv '60, Doctor of Divinity Wilbur Scott Roby, Doctor of Laws Ann Espey Smith, BS '58, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1976 | David E. Martin, Doctor of Laws Addie L. Wyatt, Doctor of Laws William C. Ellis, BA '52 & MDiv '57, Doctor of Divinity Thomas R. McMahan, Doctor of Laws Samuel J. Ervin, Jr., Doctor of Laws |
| 1974 | Albert Morton Crim, Doctor of Letters Pansey M. Brown, Doctor of Divinity Percy K. Jenkins, Doctor of Science J. David Grubbs, BA '60, Doctor of Divinity Mark O. Hatfield, Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 | Otis R. Bowen, Doctor of Laws William J. Gaither, BA '59, Doctor of Music Marvin J. Hartman, BA '49, Doctor of Divinity Nellie Field Snowden, '44, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1972 | Alexander E. Bracken, Doctor of Laws Edith Green, Doctor of Laws B. Gale Hetrick, BTh '44, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1971 | James R. Farmer, Doctor of Laws E. Joe Gilliam, Doctor of Humane Letters Ross H. Minkler, Doctor of Divinity E. J. Morris, Jr., Doctor of Dininity Thomas E. Wilson, Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 | Chester L. Edwards, BS '55, Doctor of Laws Maxwell R. Gaulke, BA '33, Doctor of Divinity Theodore M. Hesburgh, Doctor of Humane Letters Raymond S. Jackson, Doctor of Divinity Richard G. Lugar, Doctor of Laws |
| 1969 | William B. Harper, '51, Doctor of Humane Letters Robert L. Kessler, Doctor of Laws Charles H. Malik, Doctor of Humane Letters Wilbur L. Schield, '34, Doctor of Laws Paul A. Tanner, BTh '46, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1967 | Bessie Hittle Byrum, Doctor of Humane Letters John R. Emens, Doctor of Humane Letters R. Eugene Sterner, '36, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1966 | Birch E. Bayh, Doctor of Laws Donald L. Boyes, Doctor of Laws Elmo A. Funk, Doctor of Laws Elmer E. Kardatzke, BA '35 & BDiv '37, Doctor of Divinity Charles V. Weber, '28, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1964 | Everett A. Hartung, Doctor of Laws Archie A. Kinion, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1963 | Harold W. Boyer, '37, Doctor of Divinity Charles M. Schulz, Doctor of Humane Letters Izler Solomon, Doctor of Music |
| 1962 | Ivy Kahn, Doctor of Humane Letters Oscar T. Simpson, Doctor of Science Herman B. Wells, Doctor of Laws Ewald E. Wolfram, BA '47, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1961 | Landrum R. Bolling, Doctor of Humane Letters Gerhard Klabunde, Doctor of Divinity Harry B. Mitchell, Doctor of Divinity Frank K. Zoll, Doctor of Laws |
| 1960 | Denzel R. Lovely, '34, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1959 | Frank H. Allis, Doctor of Laws Lester A. Crose, BA '45, Doctor of Divinity David W. Gaulke, BA '34, Doctor of Science William E. Reed, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1957 | Clarence W. Hatch, BTh '24 & BTh '41, Doctor of Divinity Charles E. Wilson, Doctor of Laws |
| 1956 | T. Franklin Miller, '35, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1955 | Theodore A. Distler, Doctor of Laws |
| 1954 | Harold L. Phillips, BTh '38, Doctor of Divinity Harriet Williams Toner, Doctor of Literature |
| 1953 | John H. Kane, BTh '21 & BTh' 39, Doctor of Divinity Theodore R. McKeldin, Doctor of Laws Hillery C. Rice, Jr., BTh '42, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1951 | Ernest P. Kersten, Doctor of Divinity Linfield Myers, Doctor of Laws Warren C. Roark, BTh '24, Doctor of Divinity Henry F. Schricker, Doctor of Laws |
| 1950 | Harold E. Achor, Doctor of Laws |
| 1949 | William H. Hunt, Doctor of Divinity Steele C. Smith, BTh '24 & BA '34, Doctor of Laws |
| 1945 | W. Dale Oldham, BTh '23 & BTh '38, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1942 | Floyd I. McMurray, Doctor of Laws Estel E. Perry, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1941 | Elsie E. Egermeir, Doctor of Literature Ida Byrd Rowe, BA '36 & BTh '38, Doctor of Letters |
| 1940 | Elver F. Adcock, BTh '21 & BTh '38, Doctor of Laws Adam W. Miller, BA '39, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1939 | John D. Crose, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1938 | Arthur L. Campbell, Doctor of Laws Rodney C. Caudill, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1937 | Earl L. Martin, BTh '30 & BDiv '36, Doctor of Divinity M. Clifford Townsend, Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 | William E. Monk, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1934 | Sethard P. Dunn, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1933 | George Russell Olt, Doctor of Laws |
| 1931 | Alexander T. Rowe, Doctor of Divinity Barney E. Warren, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1930 | Charles E. Brown, Doctor of Divinity John A. Morrison, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1929 | Eugene Alonzo Reardon, Doctor of Divinity Joseph T. Wilson, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1928 | Raymond Russell Byrum, Doctor of Divinity |
| 1927 | Herbert M. Riggle, Doctor of Divinity Frederick G. Smith, Doctor of Divinity |
