Speakers

Year	Speaker	Address
2021	Jimmy Dunne
2020	Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
2019	Peggy Noonan	Commencement address
2018	Judge Sérgio Moro	Commencement address
2017	Vice President Mike Pence	Commencement address
2016	General Martin E. Dempsey	Commencement address
2015	Lord Christopher Patten	Commencement address
2014	Reverend Ray Hammond II	Commencement address
2013	Cardinal Timothy Dolan	Commencement address
2012	Haley Scott DeMaria	Commencement address
2011	Robert M. Gates	Commencement address
2010	Brian Williams	Commencement address
2009	President Barack Obama	Commencement address Video announcement
2008	Theodore Cardinal McCarrick (Honorary Degree rescinded)	Commencement address
2006	Mary McAleese	Commencement address
2005	Vartan Gregorian	Commencement address
2004	Alan Cedric Page	Commencement address
2003	Richard Green Lugar	Commencement address
2002	Timothy John Russert	Commencement address
2001	President George W. Bush	Commencement address
2000	Kofi Annan	Commencement address
1999	Elizabeth Hanford Dole	Commencement address