Scott A. Steiner (born October 1973) is a Judge of the Orange County Superior Court in California, former deputy district attorney, former chairman of the Orange Planning Commission, and former adjunct professor of California evidence and criminal procedure at Chapman University School of Law.
In 2005, he was selected by District Attorney Tony Rackauckas to serve as head of the Hate Crime Unit of that Office.
In that capacity, he published the article “Habitations of Cruelty: Pitfalls of Expanding Hate Crime Legislation to Include Homelessness” in Thomson Reuters Criminal Law Bulletin.
In September 2014, Steiner was censured by the California Commission on Judicial Performance for engaging in sexual activity with two women in his chambers.
Following his censure, Steiner remains active on the bench, and was re-elected on June 7, 2016, with broad support from the legal and political communities.