- Byron Tunnell, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, 5-31-63
- U. S. Senator John Tower, 11-11-63
- U. S. Congressman Ray Roberts, 5-30-69
- Neil Diamond (singer), 11-21-69
- Rear Admiral Howard Earl Greer (also a TJC grad), 5-22-70
- Bob Hope, Entertainer, 10-12-1971
- President Gerald Ford, 1976
- James B. Irwin, astronaut, 1977
- H. Ross Perot, 9-26-80
- Governor Bill Clements, 9-27-80
- Will Jennings, Academy Award winning song writer (and TJC grad), 11-4-1983
- Vladamir Sakharov, former KGB-CIA double agent, 2-4-86
- Roger Staubach, 9-16-86
- Former CIA Director William Colby and wife Sally, Former Ambassador to Grenada & other Latin American countries, 11-1986
- Former CBS News President, Fred Friendly, 4-2-87
- President George H.W. Bush, November 1990
- Renown Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 2-25-93
- Richard Leakey, author, 10-24-94
- Lt. Governor Rick Perry, 1-25-00
- Former Secretary of Education, Dr. William Bennett, 9-17-01
- Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise, 2-5-03
- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, 5-11-06
- President Bill Clinton, 2008