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NCAA Division I Sports
Discontinued Sports
Club Sports
Athletic Department
Nicknames
Traditions
Official Links
Year | Speaker | Speech |
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2024 | Shital Vora, CEO and co-founder of Global Brigades | Speech |
2023 | Marlee Matlin, Academy Award-winning actress | Speech |
2022 | Dwyane Wade, Three-time NBA champion who led Marquette to the Final Four in 2003 | Speech |
2021 | John Ridley, Director, screenwriter, novelist, playwright and showrunner | Speech |
2020 | No Commencement due to COVID-19 | |
2019 | David Brooks, New York Times best-selling author and political commentator | Speech |
2018 | Jeannie and Jim Gaffigan, Comedians, actors, writers and producers | Speech |
2017 | Sister Maria Marciano, O.P., Dominican sister from Brazil who serves Haiti’s poorest citizens | Speech |
2016 | Dr. Judith Mayotte, Teacher, author, television producer and humanitarian | Speech |
2015 | Sister Margaret “Peggy” O’Neill, S.C., Founder of El Centro Arte Para la Paz in El Salvador | Speech |
2014 | Rev. James Martin, S.J., Jesuit priest, writer and Culture Editor of the Jesuit magazine America | Speech |
2013 | Bill Cosby, Actor/Comedian - (Marquette revoked Cosby's honorary degree in 2015) | Speech |
2012 | Hank Aaron, Baseball Legend | Speech |
2011 | David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author | Speech |
2010 | Wendy Kopp, Founder - Teach for America | Speech |
2009 | Dick Enberg, Sports Brodcaster & Author of McGuire | Speech |
2008 | Andrew Natsios, Special Envoy for Darfur | Speech |
2007 | Steve Rushin, Sports Journalist | Speech |
2006 | Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor | Speech |
2005 | Cokie Roberts, Broadcast Journalist | Speech |
2004 | Wayne Sanders, Businessman | Speech |
2003 | Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop | Speech |
2002 | Stephen Covey, Author | Speech |
2001 | Fred "Mister" Rogers, TV Personality | Speech |
2000 | R.W. Apple, Jr., Journalist | Speech |
1999 | Janine Geske, Director of Resolution Center, Marquette University | Speech |
1998 | Dr. Howard Fuller, Director of the Institute for the Transformation of Learning | Speech |
1997 | Rembert Weakland, Archbishop | Speech |
1996 | Tommy Thompson, Governor of Wisconsin | Speech |
1995 | Mr. Edward Brennan, Chairman and CEO Sears, Roebuck and Co. | Speech |
1994 | His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago | Speech |
1993 | Hon. Frank Shakespeare, Ambassador to the Vatican; Ambassador to Portugal | Speech |
1992 | Barbara Bush, First Lady | Speech |
1991 | James Coleman, Economist | Speech |
1990 | Daniel Pilarczyk, Archbishop of Cincinnati | Speech |
1989 | William J. Wilson,Professor, University of Chicago | Speech |
1988 | William Rehnquist, Supreme Court Justice | Speech |
1987 | Michael Novak, American Catholic philosopher, writer, and diplomat | Speech |
1986 | Rev. John Powell, SJ, Professor of Theology, Loyola University | Speech |
1985 | C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General | Speech |
1984 | Hanna Holborn Gray, President, University of Chicago | Speech |
1983 | Loret Ruppe, Director of the Peace Corp | Speech |
1982 | Edmund Muskie, Former Sec. of State, Former U.S. Senator | Speech |
1981 | Rev. Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., Theologian | Speech |
1980 | Most Rev. Francisco F. Claver, Bishop of Malaybay, P.I. | Speech |