James Kendrick Batchelder (1842–1925) was a Vermont lawyer and politician.
He attended Albany Law School and was admitted to the bar at Bennington in 1866.
Batchelder served as state's attorney for Bennington County from 1874-1884.
He was a Republican presidential elector in 1880 and served as vice president of the Vermont Bar Association in 1888.
[1] From 1908 to 1909, he was President of the Vermont Bar Association, succeeding Alexander Dunnett.