Sir John Norman Keates Whitford (24 June 1913 – 5 November 2001) was a British barrister and judge.
A member of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Whitford was called up immediately upon the outbreak of the Second World War, and was assigned to work on the radar.
[Note 1] He was subsequently posted to the British Embassy in Washington D.C. in 1944, where he advised on patents and wartime information exchange and cooperation.
He had difficulty assessing the credibility of witnesses, was prone to taking a dislike to a party and jumping to conclusions, and was sometimes rude to counsel.
Whitford married Rosemary Barcham Green in 1946; she was the widow of a close Cambridge friend who had been killed as an RAF pilot on active service.