Florida’s longest-serving attorney general, Robert Butterworth, will receive the Florida Bar Foundation’s highest award, the 2014 Medal of Honor Award, in June.

Butterworth was selected by his peers for his leadership in multi-state litigation against the tobacco industry, which brought $11 billion to Florida. The attorney general from 1987 to 2002, he also was recognized for enforcing victim and consumer protection, environmental, civil rights and antitrust laws.