Lemuel Jenkins (October 20, 1789 – August 18, 1862) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He was admitted to the bar in October 1815, and practiced in Bloomingburgh.
Afterwards he removed to Albany, and resumed the practice of law there.
On September 17, 1832, he married his second wife Elizabeth Tracy Kidd.
His son Charles E. Jenkins removed to Milwaukee in 1848, was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1850 and 1851, and Judge of the Milwaukee County Court from 1854 to 1856.