The following is a list of keynote speakers at the commencement of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. Speakers *1965 - Adlai Stevenson *1966 - Lester B. Pearson *1967 - John W. Gardner *1968 - James Reston *1969 - Edward Kennedy *1970 - John Lindsay *1971 - René Dubos *1972 - Barbara Tuchman *1973 - Ralph E. Gomory '50 *1974 - Sterling Allen Brown '22 *1975 - Barbara Jordan *1976 - George W. Ball *1977 - David Riesman *1978 - Anthony Lewis *1979 - Terris Moore '29 *1980 - Keith Broadwell Griffin *1981 - Donald McHenry *1982 - Garry Trudeau *1983 - Robert Coles *1984 - Neil Simon *1985 - Stephen Jay Gould *1986 - Zbigniew Brzezinski *1987 - Meg Greenfield *1988 - Henry Cisneros *1989 - Johnnetta Cole *1990 - Michael Dukakis *1991 - Guido Calabresi *1992 - John Hope Franklin *1993 - Jim Lehrer *1994 - Kirk Varnedoe '67 *1995 - Bernice Johnson Reagon *1996 - George H. W. Bush *1997 - Grace Paley *1998 - Yo-Yo Ma *1999 - Christopher Reeve *2000 - George Mitchell *2001 - Robert Rubin *2002 - Morris Dees *2003 - Eric Lander *2004 - David Halberstam *2005 - Thomas L. Friedman *2006 - Chuck Davis *2007 - Katie Couric *2008 - Richard Serra *2009 - Clarence Otis '77 *2010 - Jay McInerney '76 *2011 - Cory Booker *2012 - Atul Gawande *2013 - Billie Jean King *2014 - Michael Bloomberg *2015 - Ursula Burns *2016 - Bryan Stevenson *2017 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie *2018 - Bob Schieffer *2019 - Mary-Claire King