Domestic Honours
• Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction (12 January 2017)
Foreign Honours
• Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (1st Class) (5 February 2004)
• Crescent of Pakistan (28 October 2008)
• Golden Medal of Freedom (21 May 2009)
• St. George’s Order of Victory (22 July 2009)
• Order of the Three Stars (1st Class) (1 April 2011)
• Order of Boyaca (Extraordinary Grand Cross) (17 November 2016)
• Member of the Order of Liberty (17 January 2017)
• National Order of the Montenegrin Great Star, First Class (22 March 2018)
• President’s Medal (14 July 2022)
• Cross of Military Merit (22 December 2022)
• Order of Vytautas the Great with the Golden Chain (11 July 2023)
Academic Honours
• Honorary PhD from University of Scranton (1978)
• Honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from Saint Joseph’s University (1981)
• Honorary PhD from Widener University Delaware Law School (May 2000)
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) from Delaware State University (7 May 2003)
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) from Emerson College (19 May 2003)
• Honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from University of Delaware (29 May 2004)
• Honorary PhD from Suffolk University Law School (23 May 2005)
• Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from Syracuse University (10 May 2009)
• Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from Wake Forest University (18 May 2009)
• Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from University of Pennsylvania (13 May 2013)
• Honorary PhD from Miami Dade College (3 May 2014)
• Doctor of Public Administration (DPA) from University of South Carolina (9 May 2014)
• Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from Trinity College Dublin (24 June 2016)
• Doctor of Public Service (DPS) from Morgan State University (20 May 2017)
• Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from Colby College (21 May 2017)
• Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL) from South Carolina State University (17 December 2021)
• Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) from Howard University (13 May 2023)
• Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from Morehouse College (19 May 2024)
Awards & Others
• Ellis Island Medal of Honor by Ellis Island Honors Society (26 April 1992)
• True Ally Award by Men Stopping Violence (2005)
• National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund’s Distinguished Service Award by National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (26 October 2009)
• Annie Glenn Award by American Speech–Language–Hearing Association (23 November 2009)
• Distinguished International Leadership Award by Atlantic Council (3 May 2011)
• Irish America Hall of Fame Inductee by Irish America magazine (21 March 2013)
• Humanitarian Award by Patient Safety Movement Foundation (2015)
• Patriarch Athenagoras Humanitarian Award by Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (17 October 2015)
• Laetare Medal by University of Notre Dame (15 May 2016)
• Allegheny College Prize for Civility in Public Life by Allegheny College (7 June 2016)
• Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage by Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin (24 June 2016)
• Freedom of the City by County Louth (25 June 2016)
• Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award by Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (6 December 2016)
• Congressional Patriot Award by Bipartisan Policy Center (1 March 2017)
• HELP HERO Humanitarian Award by HELP USA (16 March 2017)
• Zbigniew Brzezinski Annual Prize by Center for Strategic and International Studies (5 October 2017)
• Courage Award by New York City Anti-Violence Project (11 October 2017)
• United Nations Day Humanitarian of the Year Award by United Nations Association of New York (3 November 2017)
• ASH Public Service Award by American Society of Hematology (10 December 2017)
• Josiah Marvel Cup Award by Delaware State Chamber of Commerce (8 January 2018)
• Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service by PNC Bank (14 April 2018)
• Freedom House Human Rights Award by Freedom House (23 May 2018)
• Excellence in Public Service Award by John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University (11 July 2018)
• Hyde Family Foundation Award by National Civil Rights Museum (17 October 2018)
• Luminary Leadership Award by Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University (29 November 2018)
• Lifetime Achievement Award by National Minority Quality Forum (9 April 2019)
• Lifetime Achievement Award by NAACP (19 May 2024)