2012
Michael Sandel
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government
Harvard University
2011
Martha L. Minow
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law
Dean of the Faculty of Law
Harvard Law School
2010
Dr. Carol R. Johnson
Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools
2009
Congressman Barney Frank
Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts
Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee
2008
Cass R. Sunstein
Karl N. Llewellyn Dist. Service Prof. of Jurisprudence, Law School, Dept. of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago
2007
Governor Deval Patrick
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
2006
Harold Hongju Koh
Dean and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith
Professor of International Law, Yale Law School
(Currently serves as Legal Adviser to the United States Department of State)
2005
Jamie Gorelick
Member of the 9/11 Commission
Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
Partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
2004
Judge Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
2003
Judge Guido Calabresi
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
2002
Justice Anthony Kennedy
United States Supreme Court
2001
Susan Estrich
Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science
University of Southern California Law School
2000
Marvin Kalb
Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for CBS News and NBC News and moderator of Meet the Press"
(Currently Marvin Kalb is a James Clark Welling Presidential Fellow at The George Washington University and Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is also a contributing news analyst for National Public Radio and Fox News Channel.)
1999
Judge Constance Baker Motley
United States Supreme Court Justice
1998
Chief Judge Patricia McGowan Wald
Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
1997
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
Chief Justice of the United States
1996
Justice Stephen Breyer
United States Supreme Court
1995
Judge Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
1994
Matthew V. Storin
Editor of the Boston Globe
(Currently Adjunct Professor in American Studies and the John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy at Notre Dame)
1993
John le Carré
Novelist
1992
Justice Harry Blackmun
United State Supreme Court
1991
Arthur R. Miller
Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
(Currently a Professor at NYU Law)