James Eugene Long (March 19, 1940 – February 2, 2009) was the North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance from 1985 through 2009 retiring as the senior Democratic member of the North Carolina Council of State.

From 1958 to 1962 he studied at North Carolina State University, where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and the following year he attended and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree.

[1] He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1966.

[2] Long served in the North Carolina House of Representatives (1971–1975) as had his father and grandfather.

He also worked as legal counsel to the state house speaker and as Chief Deputy Commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Insurance from 1975 to 1976.