Past Ceremonies
Commencement is one of the most important moments in the academic year and a time of celebration on The Hill.
- 2024: Former U.S. Senator Doug Jones
- 2023: Retired Navy Adm. Michelle J. Howard
- 2022: Gillian Zucker ’90, president of business operations for the NBA’s LA Clippers
- 2020: Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph ’81
- 2021: Ty Seidule, professor emeritus of military history at West Point and the inaugural Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton
- 2019: Freeman Hrabowski, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- 2018: Darren Walker, Ford Foundation President
- 2017: Charlie Baker, Governor of Massachusetts
- 2016: Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal
- 2015: Philip Murphy, former United States Ambassador to Germany
- 2014: Christopher Dickey, award-winning author and journalist
- 2013: Thomas Tull ’92, founder, chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures
- 2012: A.G. Lafley ’69, former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble
- 2011: Al Gore, 45th vice president of the United States
- 2010: Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric
- 2009: Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazine
- 2008: Henry Paulson, Jr., U.S. Treasury Secretary
- 2007: Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations
- 2006: Anna Quindlen, award winning author and journalist
- 2005: Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore
- 2004: Mike Castle ’61, Delware congressman
- 2003: Jim Lehrer, PBS News anchor
- 2002: Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey
- 2001: Tom Vilsack ’72, former Governor of Iowa
- 2000: Brian Urquhart, former U.N. Undersecretary
- 1999: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., literary critic and Professor at Harvard University
- 1998: Jessica Mathews, president of International Peace Endowment
- 1997: Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and NBA All-Star
- 1996: David McCullough, author and biographer
