Joseph C. Zakas (born November 7, 1950) is an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican member of the Indiana Senate for the 11th district from 1982 to 2018.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1972 and a dual JD–MBA from the Notre Dame Law School.

[3] Zakas worked as an attorney for Thorne Grodnik LLP in Elkhart, Indiana.

He was first elected to the Indiana Senate in 1982, succeeding Dan Manion.

[4] He was the Republican nominee for Indiana's 3rd congressional district in 1996, losing in the general election by Democrat Tim Roemer.