Arthur Alden Kimball was born to Arthur Herbert Kimball and Helena Moriah Kimball in the District of Columbia, USA in 1908 and died in Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida in 1996.

Kimball enter government service in 1928, going to work for the United States Department of Commerce; over his long career in government, Kimball would go on to serve in various other government departments, agencies, and administrations. At the beginning of World War II, Kimball joined the United States Army as a budget officer of the War Department, and after the war, he helped George Marshall establish the Economic Cooperation Administration.

Perhaps most significantly, Kimball served as Chief of Administration for the U.S. prosecution team for the Nuremberg war crime trials.

When John F. Kennedy became president, Kimball briefly left his career in the government and chose to practice law as a regular civilian for five years. Kimball resumed his career in the government in 1966, becoming Director of International Training at the Agency for International Development in 1972; Kimball held the position until 1974, when he retired from government service for good.

After retiring from the government, Kimball moved to Florida; there he became the Florida Institute of Technology’s director of International Affairs.