Holly A. Couch
Holly Couch is an attorney in the firm's Construction Service Group specializing in construction and data center transactional work. Holly provides comprehensive legal support to owners, contractors, and subcontractors throughout all phases of construction projects, including planning, contract drafting and negotiation, and project administration.
Holly is a member of Stites & Harbison’s data center team which handles transactions annually exceeding $1 billion for leading data center developers in the United States. She structures and negotiates agreements essential to the procurement, design, construction, and operation of data centers. Holly has experience in developing, reviewing, and negotiating contracts for clients in the rapidly growing data center industry, including design, construction, commissioning, equipment, and other goods and services agreements for data centers and supporting infrastructure.
Before joining the firm, Holly was a law clerk for the Honorable Edward B. Atkins, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law
Kentucky Law Journal, Special Features Editor, Vol. 111; Staff Editor, Vol. 110
2023 Allison Connelly Seek Justice Award
2023 UK College of Law Pro Bono Award
Women's Law Caucus, President
Central Kentucky American Inn of Court, Student Member
cum laude
Centre College
Bonner Scholar (national leadership scholar program for low-income and first-generation college students focused on community service and civic engagement)
Brown Colonel Scholar, four-year academic scholarship
After Law School, Holly was a law clerk for Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in Frankfort, Ky. While in law school, she was a certified legal intern in the University of Kentucky Legal Clinic (2022-23) and a law clerk for the National Labor Relations Board Region 9 (Summer 2022).
Kentucky Vastly Expands Data Center Tax Incentives
During the 2025 legislative session, the Kentucky General Assembly passed House Bill 775 (“HB 775”) expanding the sales and use tax exemptions for qualified data center projects in Kentucky. Eligible entities engaged in “qualified data center projects” are exempt from sales and use taxes on data center equipment, so long as the owner, operator, or colocation tenant makes the required minimum capital investments. Cassisdy Rosenthal takes a look at the Bill in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.
Kentucky Tax Incentives for Qualified Data Centers
As Kentucky prepares for the 2025 legislative session, Stites & Harbison will be watching to see whether the General Assembly expands data center tax incentives beyond House Bill 8 (“HB 8”) which was passed by the Kentucky General Assembly in 2024. Among other provisions, HB 8 creates sales and use tax exemptions on data center equipment for eligible entities engaged in providing qualified data center infrastructure.
Stites & Harbison Welcomes Nine Attorneys to Kentucky and Georgia
Stites & Harbison, PLLC announces the addition of nine attorneys to the firm. Four attorneys join the Louisville, Ky., office: Rachel Gumbel, Jackson B. Hurst-Sanders, James E. Myers and April M. J. Sain. Harper B. Anderson, Holly A. Couch and Robert H. Dean join the firm in Lexington, Ky., while Mackenzie Miller and Lauren Towell (Ren) join the Atlanta office.