Each year at Commencement Millsaps honors wonderful role models and remarkably talented citizens by giving them an honorary doctorate. The following is a list of each of these remarkable people serperated by decade.
2008-2009
Marian Wright Edelman – Doctor of Public Service
Charles Thomas Fingar – Doctor of Public Service
Hugh Gaston Hall – Doctor of Humane Letters
Rowan Hurt Taylor – Doctor of Public Service
2007-2008
Martha Bergmark – Doctor of Public Service
Greg Iles – Doctor of Humane Letters
Leslie B. McLemore – Doctor of Public Service
John Stone – Doctor of Humane Letters
2006-2007
Helen B. Barnes, M.D. - Doctor of Science
John D. Bower, M.D. - Doctor of Public Service
The Reverend Ross Olivier - Doctor of Public Service
Joe Frank Sanderson, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
2005-2006
Randall Pinkston - Doctor of Humane Letters
Satnam L. Sethi - Doctor of Laws
Rev. Keith Tonkel - Doctor of Divinity
Leila Clark Wynn - Doctor of Public Service
2004-2005
Thad Cochran - Doctor of Laws
Milton Babbitt - Doctor of Arts
Howard L. McMillan, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Kathryn Loeb Wiener - Doctor of Public Service
2003-2004
John N. Palmer - Doctor of Laws
Wallace Conerly - Doctor of Science
Bishop Kenneth Carder - Doctor of Divinity
Hugh B. Landrum Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Myrlie Evers-Williams - Doctor of Public Service
2002-2003
James Barksdale - Doctor of Laws
Sally McDonnell Barksdale - Doctor of Public Service
Turner Cassity - Doctor of Humane Letters
2001-2002
Rev. Will Davis Campbell - Doctor of Humane Letters
Justice James E. Graves, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Chief Phillip Martin - Doctor of Laws
Cassandra Wilson - Doctor of Arts
2000-2001
Reuben V. Anderson - Doctor of Laws
Corinne Claiborne Lindy Boggs - Doctor of Laws
Warren Eugene Pittman - Doctor of Divinity
Cokie Roberts - Doctor of Humane Letters
1999-2000
Edward L. Moyers - Doctor of Laws
Samuel Jones - Doctor of Humane Letters
Paul Piper, Sr. - Doctor of Laws
Marshall L. Meadors - Doctor of Humane Letters
Jean C. Lindsey - Doctor of Humane Letters (Posthumously)
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