Joann Fielding

Joann Fielding is a woman who was the mother of Shannon Gibbs, ex-wife of Mac Fielding, mother-in-law of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and grandmother of Kelly Gibbs. She was also in a relationship with Joseph Norton for a while. 
==Biography==
===Pre-Series===
She lived in Pennsylvania, Stillwater with her family, where she and Mac Fielding raised Shannon and her sister. She was the loving mother and grandmother of Shannon Gibbs and Kelly Gibbs. She appears to have been close to Gibbs and his family, even Gibbs' father Jackson. She and Gibbs lost contact after their death. 
Mac and Joann divorced a few years after they lost their daughter and granddaughter and she never got over their death. She blames Gibbs not being there for their deaths. She even seduced Joseph Norton, as she believed that he killed them and plotted to take revenge by killing him.
===NCIS Season 7===
She is introduced in Mother's Day (episode) as a material witness, when Joseph Norton was shot while he proposed to her. It is revealed she has not seen Gibbs since the funeral of Kelly. As the investigation proceeds it becomes clear that her story has holes in it and she becomes the prime suspect. Norton is linked to drug dealing and specifically the drug cartel connected to the death of Shannon and Kelly. Gibbs notices that she is lying to him and knows that she is not giving the full story, but still has a hard time believing she is involved even with strong evidence. She blames him for their deaths, even though she knows he didn't kill them and she is driven by rage and a need for revenge. He wishes to help her as he knows that that is what Shannon would want. He gives her many opportunities to come clean to him, even breaking protocol to protect her and give her the benefit of the doubt. 
He eventually comes to terms with it, when the Ducky presents the forensic evidence and her full motive is revealed. Gibbs confronts her in his basement and says that she killed one man, framed another and did it all like a pro. He reveals that Norton was not Shannon and Kelly's killer, but he knows who did, but does not tell her that he him self had killed Pedro Hernandez, their real killer, many years ago. After understanding that she had killed they an innocent man, she confesses to Gibbs while giving him a hug, that she had shot him 3 times and whispered their names when he had proposed to her. He seems to do the right thing by arresting her, but her lawyer enters the room and says that the arrest is illegal because he had interrogated her without proper citation and that the confession was coerced, but it seems that that was his intention so that the case would never stick and she would not be prosecuted. They say proper goodbye and he leaves his house, while the lawyer realizes what he has done.
===NCIS Season 8===
==Personality==
==Physical Appearance==
==Victims==
*Joseph Norton - (shot).
==Trivia==
*Gina Rowlands who played Joann Fielding retired from acting in 2014.
*Rowlands died on August 14, 2024 in California from complications from Alzheimer's at the age of 94.
Category:Americans in NCIS
Category:One-Off NCIS Characters
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Category:Murderers in NCIS