Joanna Susan Lavender is the daughter of David S. Lavender and Catherine J. Field.

Joanna was born in 1976 in Birmingham, Warwickshire.

Joanna married Robert Newlan in 2008.

She had the following children from her marriage to Robert Newlan:

- Ivy B. Lavender Newlan	born in 2010.
- Margo J. Lavender Newlan	born in 2012.