Joseph Fernex (died 14 February 1795) was a judge in the Revolutionary Tribunals during the French Revolution.
A silk weaver from Lyon, close to Joseph Chalier, he was one of fived judges appointed in Lyon following the victory of the revolutionary armies. He later served as a judge in Orange, Vaucluse.
He was killed during the First White Terror in Lyon and his body thrown into the Rhone. p. 468Bruno Benoît, L'identité politique de Lyon, entre violences collectives et mémoire, Pars, L'Harmattan, 1999, 239 pages, p. 43 .
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