Prior to that he was a Maryland state delegate for nearly 19 years in District 14B, which covered parts of Howard and Montgomery County.
He was the father of Maryland former state senator and former Howard County executive Allan H. Kittleman.
[2] Bob was an active participant in the civil rights movement, pursuing desegregation of Howard County Schools which lasted more than a decade past the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
[5] He was a chair of the Howard County Republican Central Committee, and was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).
In 1978 Kittleman ran for the Howard County Council, In 1982, he made his first run for Maryland House of Delegates.