Dr. Knight is currently senior advisor for PathGroup Laboratories in Nashville, where she was previously medical director of cytopathology and women’s health. Board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and cytopathology, Dr. Knight received her medical degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and did her residency training in anatomic and clinical pathology at Emory University. She subsequently completed a surgical pathology fellowship at University of Texas Health Science Center in Dallas. She practiced first in Dallas and then for an extended time in Dalton, Georgia, where she was laboratory medical director at Hamilton Medical Center and president of associates in laboratory medicine.

Dr. Knight has been actively involved with the College of American Pathologists for two decades. In October of 2022 she completed two terms as speaker of the House of Delegates and eight years as an ex officio member of the CAP Board of Governors. She has been honored to serve on numerous CAP councils and committees and has had a deep commitment to CAP advocacy. Currently Dr. Knight is a member of the Council on Government and Professional Affairs, the Council on Membership and Professional Development, the PathPAC Board of Directors, chair of the State Pathology Society Member Workgroup. She is particularly delighted to have been recently elected to the Foundation Board of Directors.

Her role as mother to a rising broadcast journalist is perhaps her favorite, but Dr. Knight has also been involved with numerous local organizations and nonprofit/philanthropic boards involving health care, the arts, and the community.