title: Kitili Maluki Mwendwa
text: # Kitili Maluki Mwendwa
  
  Kitili Maluki Mwendwa is a former Chief Justice of Kenya. He served between 1968–1971 and was succeeded by Sir James Wicks.
  
  Mwendwa, who was from Kitui, was the first African to become Chief Justice of Kenya. His brother, Ngala Mwendwa, served as Kenya's first Minister of Labour from 1963 to 1974.
  
  