Joseph-Émery Phaneuf (February 14, 1863 – August 9, 1935) was a Quebec provincial politician during the first half of the 20th century.
Phaneuf was first elected in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in a by-election in 1913 in the riding of Bagot (now part of Johnson).
He also served as mayor of his birth town of Saint-Hughes during his provincial political career from 1917 to 1931.
He was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party, which was in power during his entire tenure as MLA.
He introduced a number of laws regulating the insurance industry, then in its infancy.