James Fang is the current BART Board President and the longest serving Director on the BART Board.  He represents the 8th BART District, which includes portions of San Francisco. Voters first elected him to the BART Board in November 1990 and he was sworn into office on December 6, 1990.  Before his current term as President, his BART Board colleagues first chose him to serve as President in 1998 and then again in 2004.  He was Vice President of the Board in 1997, 2003 and 2008.

Director Fang is currently Chairperson for the Board’s Engineering and Operations Committee.  He also serves as a member of the Board’s newly-formed Sustainability/Green Committee and as a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Liaison Committee.  Additionally, Fang serves as a member of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Board and the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Project Policy Advisory Board.

Fang is a native and life long San Franciscan who attended public schools in the city before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, and attending Hastings College of Law.  A member of the California State Bar, Fang served as a law clerk in the U.S. Attorney's Office and, while in college, was an aide to the late Congressman Philip Burton.

Fang served as Director of Commerce and Trade in the Administration of former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan. He was a member of the Extended Opportunity Program Foundation of City College and the Soo Yuen Association Scholarship Committee, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Chinatown YMCA and the San Francisco Cork, Ireland, Sister City Committee.

Fang is the President of Asian Week, the oldest and largest English language newspaper serving the Asian/Pacific Islander American community. He is married and lives in San Francisco.