Joni graduated from Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas, in 1978 as a Registered Veterinary Technician. Following graduation, she joined Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in the radiology section of the Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery. After five years, she transferred to the Department of Large Animal Medicine and Surgery, allowing her to combine her love for radiology with her passion for horses. She spent the remainder of her professional career there—31 years—teaching students the art of equine radiographic imaging and providing high-quality radiographs for patients admitted to the Large Animal Clinic at Texas A&M’s Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.

In addition to her duties at Texas A&M, Joni served as a consultant with 3M Animal Care Products from 1991 to 2006, contributing to the development of technique charts for various film/screen combinations offered by their imaging group. In 2006, she joined Sound Technologies, where she lectured and provided laboratory instruction in radiographic and ultrasonographic techniques.

Joni retired from Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine in October 2010.

In the summer of 2017, she founded her own company, X-Ray and X-Cessories, and currently works as an Independent Representative for MinXray, Inc., serving as a lecturer, laboratory instructor for radiation safety and imaging techniques, and sales consultant.

She has presented numerous lectures on radiographic imaging at the local, state, and national levels, including the annual meetings of the Texas, Montana, and Louisiana Veterinary Medical Associations, the American Veterinary Medical Association, the American Association of Equine Practitioners, and the Northeast Association of Equine Practitioners.