Stephen Joseph Windhorst, known as Steve Windhorst (born February 12, 1957), is a judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit, a position which he assumed on January 1, 2013.
Prior to his unopposed election to the appeals court, Windhorst served as a judge of the 24th Judicial District Court in suburban New Orleans, Louisiana from 2000 to 2012.
Earlier, from 1992 to 2000, Republican Windhorst was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jefferson and Orleans parishes.
His father, Fritz Windhorst of Algiers, a neighborhood of New Orleans, served as a Democrat-turned-Republican in the Louisiana State Senate from Orleans and Jefferson parishes from 1972 to 1992.