Frank Kitto

The Right Honourable Sir Frank Kitto AC, KBE, QC
High Court in 1952, Kitto far right, back row
Justice of the High Court of Australia
In office 10 May 1950 – 1 August 1970
Nominated by	Robert Menzies
Preceded by	Sir George Rich
Succeeded by	Sir Harry Gibbs
Personal details
Born	30 July 1903 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	15 February 1994 Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

Sir Frank Walters Kitto, AC, KBE, QC (30 July 1903 – 15 February 1994), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Kitto was born in Melbourne in 1903, but his family moved to Sydney, when his father, James Kitto, became the Deputy Director of Posts and Telegraphs in New South Wales. There, he was educated at North Sydney Boys' High School. He later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours, while also winning the university's Pitt Coberg Prize.

From 1921 to 1927, Kitto worked for the Solicitor-General of New South Wales, and after this time he was admitted to the New South Wales Bar, where he practised as a barrister. His specialities were equity and Australian constitutional law. From 1930 to 1933 he was a lecturer at the University of Sydney, teaching bankruptcy and probate law in the Sydney law school. In 1932, while still a junior counsel, he appeared for the Government of New South Wales in Trethowan's case, which concerned Premier Jack Lang's attempt to abolish the New South Wales Legislative Council. The case was argued through the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the High Court and then finally to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.