Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley named Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino an honorary Suffolk prosecutor last week during an annual awards ceremony that recognizes outstanding employees of the Suffolk DA’s office.

“As prosecutors, we rely on our partners throughout government to help us do our jobs. This new award is bestowed on a non-prosecutor who has proven to be an invaluable part of our mission, and there’s no better inauguration for it than to recognize someone who, like us, is constantly forced to do more with less to serve and safeguard his community,” Conley said before presenting Mayor Menino with an etched glass award.

Conley noted Menino’s contributions to public safety and victim services, most notably in his key support for the Family Justice Center of Boston. The FJC offers a one-stop facility to serve the victims of child abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence, offering a place to meet with police, prosecutors, social service organizations, and transitional assistance agencies.

“Because of his leadership, historic achievements in the area of public safety, and the qualities Mayor Thomas Menino has demonstrated throughout his public career – qualities that we as prosecutors hold dear – we are bestowing upon him the singular honor of being named an honorary assistant district attorney,” Conley continued.

The award was one of a dozen handed out June 11 to Suffolk County prosecutors, victim advocates, civilian investigators, and support staff. The Suffolk Awards ceremony, now in its sixth year, recognizes outstanding achievements by members of an office that is chronically underfunded and understaffed but responsible for more than 40,000 criminal cases each year.

This year’s recognized assistant district attorneys were Jonathan Tynes, supervising prosecutor of Roxbury District Court; Greg Henning, former chief of Conley’s Gun Prosecution Task Force; Linda Poulos, who oversees all Suffolk County grand jury proceedings; and Cory Flashner of Conley’s Homicide Unit.

Victim witness advocates hailed at the ceremony were Nicole O’Donnell of Dorchester District Court and Nicole Moran of the Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau. Civilian investigators singled out for praise were Chris Adams of the DA’s Boston Municipal Court team and Ruth Scully-Hall, who designs and creates maps, diagrams, flowcharts, and other visual aids used in trials countywide. Caitlin Casey and Lesley Moreau, both assigned to the Appeals Division, won honors as top members of the office’s support staff.

Past Suffolk Award recipients include Assistant District Attorney David Deakin, who most recently prosecuted the man once known as Clark Rockefeller; David Meier, who as chief of Conley’s Homicide Unit worked to reverse the convictions of innocent men imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, and, in two cases, went on to obtain the convictions of the true guilty parties; and Chief Trial Counsel Patrick Haggan, who earned the distinction of prosecuting the longest trial in Suffolk County history and obtaining four first-degree murder convictions at its conclusion.

Menino is the first award recipient from outside the office, though some awards are named for former DAs Newman Flanagan and Ralph C. Martin II and the late City Councilor Brian J. Honan. Flanagan and Honan’s brother, Rep. Kevin Honan, were in attendance that evening at Boston’s historic Old South Meeting House.