David James Tyson Kitchin, Lord Kitchin, PC (born 30 April 1955) is a British judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2018 to 2023.

Having attended Oundle School[1] and studied Natural Sciences as an undergraduate at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Kitchin switched to Law in his final year and was called to the Bar (Gray's Inn) in 1977; he has been a bencher since 2003.

During his university days, he also coxed the Cambridge team that won the 1975 Boat Race.

He was appointed to the High Court of Justice on 3 October 2005[3] and assigned to the Chancery Division; he was knighted in the same year.

Kitchin has served as Chancery Supervising Judge for the Wales, Western and Midland Circuits since 2009.