Exhibit 32.2

SARBANES-OXLEY ACT SECTION 906

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

In connection with this Quarterly Report of Summit Financial Group, Inc. ("Summit “) on Form 10-Q for the period ending March 31, 2017 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the "Report"), I, Robert S. Tissue, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Summit, certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act  of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and result of operations of Summit.

		/s/ Robert S. Tissue
		Robert S. Tissue,
		Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Date:	May 8, 2017

The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350 and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document.