Kelly McGriff

Vice President and Deputy General Counsel
Uniti Group Inc.

As vice president and deputy general counsel of the Uniti Group, Kelly McGriff works with states, counties, and municipalities to secure ROW rights for network infrastructure builds across all Uniti entities. He also heads the litigation department for Uniti.

McGriff has spent more than 15 years working in virtually every aspect of communications law and related fields, including regulatory, transactional, litigation, legislative and land use in both the private and public sectors, including Internet services and technologies; conventional and emerging wireless services; telecommunications equipment development; and other high-technology applications. He served as general counsel of Southern Light from 2005 until its acquisition by Uniti Group in 2017.

McGriff was appointed to the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee at the FCC by Chairman Pai in 2017, and served as chairman of the committee’s State Model Code Working Group.

He resides in Fairhope, Alabama, with his wife, Elizabeth. Their two children, Camille, 22, and Pete 20, both attend Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.