James Franklin Lane (1874–1944) was an American educator and college president.

[3] Lane continued his studies at Central Tennessee College (later known as Walden University) in Nashville (B.A.

[3] In 1896, Lane was the principal at Panola High School in Sardis, Mississippi.

[3] He went on to teach mathematics at Lane College, shortly followed by a promotion to department head teacher.

[3] Lane was elected president of Lane College in 1907, succeeding James Albert Bray who had left to serve as president of Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama.