As no doubt many of you were, I was pretty disgusted by the announcement that Nancy Pelosi will be this year’s convocation speaker. (Thank God I’m graduating 2011!) But after a little googling, this is par for the course for Cornell. Here’s the list of convocation speakers since the 2000 ceremony:
| 2010 | Nancy Pelosi |
| 2009 | David Plouffe |
| 2008 | Maya Angelou |
| 2007 | Soledad O’Brien |
| 2006 | Martin Luther King III |
| 2005 | Wesley Clark |
| 2004 | Bill Clinton |
| 2003 | James Carville |
| 2002 | Danny Glover |
| 2001 | Janet Reno |
| 2000 | Chuck Schumer |
