Monica Graveline is Senior Vice President, Deputy Chief Compliance Officer & Chief Compliance Counsel for Southern Company. In this role Graveline leads teams responsible for enterprise risk management, public disclosure processes, fraud and insider threat detection, policy development and enforcement, data loss prevention, government contract compliance, and third-party risk management. She also provides legal counsel across the Southern Company footprint on compliance-related legal matters.
Prior to her current role, Graveline was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Alabama Power Company where she provided legal counsel to Alabama Power’s management team and oversaw ethics and compliance, concerns, legal services, risk services and the corporate secretary’s office.
Prior to that, Graveline served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Southern Company Services, where she oversaw several legal practice areas including labor and employment, compensation, benefits, environmental, litigation and commercial contracting.
Graveline joined Southern Company in 2011 as Managing Attorney. Previously she was lead employment counsel for an international bank and a partner with a law firm in Birmingham.
Graveline has served in numerous professional and civic endeavors, including Chair of the Legal Committee for the United Way of Central Alabama, Chair of the Business Law Section of the Birmingham Bar Association, Past Chair and Advisory Board member of the In-House and Government Lawyers Section of the Alabama State Bar, appointee to the Alabama State Bar Association’s Access to Justice Taskforce, and a member of the Boards of Directors for Red Mountain Theatre Company, MPower Ministries, the Birmingham Zoo and Legal Services of Alabama. Graveline has been named Who’s Who in the Law by the Birmingham Business Journal for the last three years.
Graveline earned a Bachelor of Arts in political communications from the University of Alabama in 1997 and her J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2000. She lives in Vestavia Hills with her family.