Joanna Saleeby Knott

Joanna Saleeby Knott is an American businesswoman and former collegiate golfer. She played golf for the NC State Wolfpack and competed in the amateur circuit. Knott is married to U.S. Congressman Brad Knott.

Education and golf career Knott attended Needham B. Broughton High School before transferring to St. David's School, an Episcopal day school in Raleigh, North Carolina.

She played on the golf team at North Carolina State University. She did not play from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, she placed at T36 in the Harder Hall Invitational and played in the NCAA East Regional Championship. That season she was a recipient of the Linda and Leon Marsh Most Improved Award.

In 2010, she was the runner-up in the Carolinas Young Amateur Women’s Championship in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Fashion career Knott worked as a sales associate, buyer, and retail manager. In 2018, she opened Monkee's of Raleigh, a high-end women's boutique in the North Hills neighborhood in Raleigh. In 2020, North Hills was the site of protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Personal life She is married to Brad Knott, a Republican U.S. Congressman for North Carolina's 13th District, and has two children.

Knott is a conservative and a Christian.