Sir John Edward Mitting (born 8 October 1947) is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales.

[2] On 3 April 2001, he was appointed a High Court judge, receiving the customary Knight Bachelor, and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division.

He retired as a High Court judge on his 70th birthday in 2017, and has been appointed to chair the Undercover Policing Inquiry, following the resignation due to ill-health of Lord Justice Pitchford.

In March 2018 campaigners and their legal team walked out of a hearing of the inquiry, calling for him to step down.

[3] Mitting is married to Judith, a retired solicitor who also sat as a part-time judge specialising in tax tribunals.