Ivory George Kimball (May 5, 1843 – May 15, 1916) was an American lawyer who served as a police court judge in Washington, D.C., for 19 years.

His ancestor, Richard Kimball, emigrated from Ipswich, Suffolk, England, to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving in America on April 10, 1674.

[1] In 1891, President Benjamin Harrison unexpectedly appointed Kimball to serve as a judge in the Police Court of the District of Columbia.

[5] But McKinley surprised court observers by reappointing Kimball on January 11, 1898, and he was quickly confirmed again by the United States Senate.

An ad hoc subcommittee of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was formed to investigate the charges (which were not specified in a public way) in executive session.

[12] He supported a successful 1904 proposal to have Congress fund construction of a new police court building, which was occupied in January 1907.

[15] In 1906, Judge Kimball asked that the city attorney be permitted to dismiss any police charge which, in that officer's opinion, was not a prima facie case.

By this time, Kimball had made numerous enemies among attorneys in the city due to his behavior on the bench, and many of them suggested that he leave office (he was now 66 years old).

[19] More than 112 local lawyers signed a petition asking President William Howard Taft to deny him reappointment on the basis of "temperamental unfitness" and incompetence.

In January 1902, Kimball ran for Commander of the Department of the Potomac, a highly influential chapter of the GAR.

Sutherland's bill proposed construction of the amphitheater Kimball wanted: a 5,000-seat structure with a small museum and an underground crypt (for the burial of famous individuals).

[30] The 1908 authorizing legislation established an Arlington Memorial Amphitheater Commission (AMAC) to oversee the design and construction of the structure.

Kimball married Anna Lovinia Ferris, a fellow teacher he met while teaching public school in Indiana.

The couple had seven children: Ella Clara (1866), Wilbra (1868), Harry Gilbert (1870), Alice May (1873), Arthur Herbert (1875), Bertha Louise (1878), Edna Gertrude (1879), and Walter Ferris (1873).

For many years, he sat on the board of directors of the Central Union Mission, an outreach center for the poor in Washington.

2, Knights Templar; and Almas Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.