Fan Kuang-chun | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-tw |
Term Start1: | 7 October 2003 |
Term End1: | 2007 |
Order1: | Secretary-General of the Judicial Yuan |
Order2: | Magistrate of Hualien County (acting) |
Term Start2: | 20 May 2003 |
Term End2: | 19 August 2003 |
Predecessor2: | Chang Fu-hsing |
Successor2: | Hsieh Shen-shan |
Order3: | Governor of Taiwan Province |
Term Start3: | 1 February 2002 |
Term End3: | 7 October 2003 |
Successor3: | Lin Kuang-hua |
Predecessor3: | Chang Po-ya |
Order4: | Minister of the Hakka Affairs Council of the Republic of China |
Term Start4: | 14 June 2001 |
Term End4: | 1 February 2002 |
Predecessor4: | Position established |
Successor4: | Yeh Chu-lan |
Birth Date: | 1939 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Shinchiku Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan |
Party: | Independent |
Nationality: | Taiwanese |
Alma Mater: | National Taiwan University Columbia University Law School |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | lawyer |
Fan Kuang-chun (; born 16 March 1939) is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician.
Fan earned an LL.B from National Taiwan University and studied at Columbia University Law School in the United States.[1] He and John Chen co-founded Formosa Transnational Attorneys at Law in 1974.[2] Fan has also worked for the Examination Yuan and served as a judge at the district court level in Taipei and Taichung.[1]
Fan served as spokesman for a group of cross-strait relations advisers President Chen Shui-bian formed in 2000.[3] On 14 June 2001, Chen started the Hakka Affairs Council, and appointed Fan the first minister.[4] Fan left the Hakka Affairs Council to become governor of Taiwan Province. He joined the Democratic Progressive Party in January 2003.[5] During his governorship, Hualien County Magistrate Chang Fu-hsing died in office, and Premier Yu Shyi-kun named Fan the acting magistrate on 20 May 2003.[6] [7] On 7 October 2003, Fan was selected as the secretary-general of the Judicial Yuan by Chen Shui-bian. That same day, he resigned from the Democratic Progressive Party.[8] In July 2007, media speculation linked Fan to a promotion as vice president of the Judicial Yuan,[9] but he remained secretary-general of the body until at least September of that year.[10]