Holly Loy joined Bovis Kyle Burch & Medlin in 2025 as a senior associate focusing on transportation, premises and general liability insurance defense.   

Holly has spent her career defending government agencies, private and public companies and individuals in all areas of insurance defense, including personal injury, transportation, construction, and civil rights defense.  This includes three years of service as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia in its civil rights division. 

Holly is the first woman in her family to attend university and first ever post-graduate.  Holly received her B.A in Liberal Arts (Political Science/History) magna cum laude from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.  She received special honors as a graduate of the University Honors Program and was the Delyte W. Morris Presidential Award recipient (bestowed on a single graduating senior).  Southern Illinois also honored Holly as the Outstanding Sorority Woman in recognition of her academic achievement, university service  and role as education vice president of Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority and Panhellenic counsel parliamentarian. 

After her father’s untimely passing two weeks after graduation delayed her plans for law school, but Holly used the next three years gaining experience as a legal secretary and paralegal before attending the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1995.   At UT, Holly was selected as a member of the ATLA National Trial Team and Tennessee Law Review editorial board.   

Holly has made Atlanta her home since 2000.  She’s been active with the Atlanta Bar Association, serving as the co-chair of the writing committee of three seasons of “A Courthouse Line,” a musical fundraiser written and performed by attorneys to raise money for the Atlanta Bar Foundation.   She was also the co-founder and a performer with “Cineprov!”, an improv comedy group that has been voted Best Live Comedy in Atlanta. From 2012 to 2014, Holly enjoyed a role as an extra “walker” on seasons three and four of “The Walking Dead.”  She even has a trading card. 

Outside of the office, Holly resides in Kennesaw with her son, Nathan, and their dog, Fergus Roderick McLeod Smith.