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3. Tribute to Spencer Kimball On 26 October 2003, AIDA-US lost Spencer LeVan Kimball, one of its founders and most active leaders, who died at the age of 85 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to his illustrious career as a law professor and scholar, Mr Kimball earned his Bachelor of Sciences at the University of Arizona and his law degree from the University of Utah Law School. He also spent two years at Lincoln College in Oxford, England as a Rhodes Scholar.
In 1949, following his Rhodes Scholarship, Kimball was appointed Associate Professor of Law at the University of Utah Law School, where he later served as the youngest Dean in the school's history. In 1957, Kimball joined the faculty of the University of Michigan. In 1968, he was appointed Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In 1972, Kimball joined the University of Chicago Law School, serving as Seymour Logan Professor Emeritus of Law until his retirement from academia in 1988. Thereafter, he served as the Executive Director of the American Bar Association Foundation in Chicago, Illinois.
Kimball made many notable contributions to the fields of national and international insurance law. In the early 1960's, he worked with others to establish AIDA-US. For the following thirty years, Kimball served in various leadership positions of AIDA-US, including President. Kimball frequently spoke at meetings of AIDA sister chapters, including the British Insurance Law Association. He also participated in several AIDA Presidential Council meetings and AIDA Quadrennial Congresses, including Congresses in Rome (1962), Hamburg (1966), Madrid (1978), London (1982) and Marrakech (1998), where he was awarded the AIDA Medal of Honour for his writings and service to AIDA.
Kimball was a prolific author of important insurance law books and papers, including Purposes and Means of State Control, Cases and Materials on Insurance Law, A New Approach to Rate Regulation in the United States of America, and Protection of Consumers: The Case of Bad Faith. Kimball also served as Director of the Wisconsin Statutes Revision Project, which remains today a model for insurance codes.
All of us in the AIDA family can be forever grateful for the work, scholarship, commitment and stewardship of Spencer Kimball. His memory holds a special place in our hearts.
T. Richard Kennedy
USA
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