He was a clerk for the Registrar of Deeds for Camden County, New Jersey from 1938 to 1939.
He was a judge of the Municipal Court of West Deptford Township, New Jersey from 1955 to 1959.
He was a judge of the Superior Court of Gloucester County, New Jersey from 1962 to 1970.
[1] Kitchen was nominated by President Richard Nixon on October 7, 1970, to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, to a new seat created by 84 Stat.
[1] Kitchen served in that capacity until his death of an apparent heart attack on September 21, 1973, at Underwood Memorial Hospital (now Inspira Health Network) in Woodbury.