Edward Lawrence Kimball (September 23, 1930 – November 21, 2016) was an American scholar, lawyer, and historian who was a law professor at Brigham Young University (BYU).
As a lawyer, Kimball specialized in evidence law.[3] He also authored a biography of Frank J. Remington and wrote on criminal cases in appellate courts.[4]
Kimball served in several positions in the LDS Church, including bishop. Prior to joining the faculty of BYU, Kimball was a law professor and chairman of the Curriculum Committee at the University of Wisconsin Law School.[5] Kimball started his career as a law professor at the University of Montana, where he taught from 1956 to 1962. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin from 1962 to 1973. He was one of the founding faculty at BYU Law School from 1973 until 1995, when he was granted emeritus status.[6] Kimball was the inaugural holder of the Ernest L. Wilkinson Chair in the BYU law school.[7]
Kimball's biography of his father has been listed among "60 Significant Mormon Biographies".[8]Lengthen Your Stride, his history of his father's church presidency, has also been widely recognized.[by whom?]
Kimball wrote an article on Henry Eyring and Harvey Fletcher published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.[9] Kimball served as the editor of his father's book Faith Precedes the Miracle. Kimball was also the compiler and editor of the widely cited work, The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982).
Kimball has published an in-depth study on the 1978 Revelation on Priesthood received by his father.[10][11] He has also written an article on the history of LDS Church temple admissions standards.[12]
Kimball married the Evelyn Bee Madsen in 1954.[13][14] They had seven children. Kimball died in Provo, Utah, on November 21, 2016, at the age of 86.[15]
Kimball, Edward L.; Farmer, Larry C.; Monson, D. Glade (1981). "Ability, Effort, and Performance among First-Year Law Students at Brigham Young University". American Bar Foundation Research Journal. 6 (3): 671–697. doi:10.1111/j.1747-4469.1981.tb00435.x. ISSN0361-9486. JSTOR828344.
^Kimball, Edward L. (1965). "Criminal Cases in a State Appellate Court: Wisconsin 1839-1959". The American Journal of Legal History. 9 (2): 95–117. doi:10.2307/844269. ISSN0002-9319. JSTOR844269.
^Based on gargoyle_02_1_6[1].pdf with added support from the author bio included with Camilla, although the latter does not specify which University in Wisconsin Kimball was connected with.
