SOUTH BEND (AP) — NCAA president Myles Brand, former Purdue University president Steven Beering and Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard will join President Barack Obama in receiving honorary degrees from the University of Notre Dame next month.

Cindy Parseghian, daughter-in-law of former Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian, also will receive an honorary degree from the school. She and her husband, Michael, co-founded a foundation to try to find a cure for Niemann-Pick Type C disease, a rare and fatal genetic disorder that struck three of their four children.

The other three announced Monday as receiving honorary degrees on May 17 are: Fritz L. Duda, chief executive officer of Genus Holdings Ltd., a Dallas-based investment company, and a member of Notre Dame's board of trustees since 1997; Patrick Finneran, vice president of program management and business excellence for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems; and Don Michael Randel, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2006.

The university's decision to award Obama an honorary degree has drawn scorn from some Catholics because of his support for abortion rights and embryonic stem-cell research.