James Fang is the Vice President of the BART Board of Directors. His fellow Board members unanimously elected him to the post, which has a one-year term, in December 2008. Vice President Fang is the longest serving Director on the BART Board. He represents the 8th BART District, which includes portions San Francisco. Voters first elected him to the BART Board in November 1990 and he was sworn into office on December 6, 1990.

He 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, Director Fang serves as a member of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Board and the Silicon Valley Rapid Transit Project Policy Advisory Board.

In 2004, his fellow board members elected him to serve as President of the BART Board. He previously held the position of President in 1998 and Vice President in 1997 and 2003.

Vice President 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, Vice President 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.

Vice President 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.

Vice President Fang is the President of Asian Week, the largest circulation Asian-American publication in the United States. He is married and lives in San Francisco.