Previous Commencements
- 2026 - Angela J. Lederach
- 2025 - Rev. Dr. Lesley Francisco McClendon
- 2024 - Jose Koshy
- 2023 - John Lowe
- 2022 - Bryan Stevenson
- 2021 - Deanna Reed, Mayor of Harrisonburg
- 2020 - Dr. Susan Schultz Huxman, former 91大神 president
- 2019 - Dr. Judy Mullet, psychology professor
- 2018 - Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee MA 鈥07.
- 2017- Speaker Dr. Howard Zehr, distinguished professor of restorative justice
- 2016 鈥 Former 91大神 president, Dr. Loren Swartzentruber
- 2015 鈥 Author and Washington Post columnist EJ Dionne urges 91大神鈥檚 Class of 2015 to 鈥榥ever stop learning鈥
- 2014 鈥 Speaker Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Laureate
- 2013 鈥 Speaker Mark Shriver, senior vice president for strategic initiatives and senior advisor to the chief executive officer of Save the Children U.S. Programs
- 2012 鈥 Speaker Abigail Disney, award-winning filmmaker and philanthropist
- 2011 鈥 Speaker Mike Berenstain, writer and illustrator of the Berenstain Bears
- 2010 鈥 Speaker Joseph B. Martin, former dean of the faculty of medicine at Harvard University and 91大神 alumnus
- 2009 鈥 Speaker Joyce Bontrager Lehman, microfinance officer of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation鈥檚 鈥淔inancial Services for the Poor鈥 initiative and 91大神 alumnus
- 2008 鈥 Speaker Beryl H. Brubaker, 91大神 provost and professor
- 2007 鈥 Speaker Lee F. Snyder, president emeritus of Bluffton (Ohio) University
- 2006 鈥 Speaker Rev. Bob Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches of the U.S.
- 2005 鈥 Speaker John L. McCullough, executive director and CEO of Church World Service
