Founding

In the spring of 1990, a group of federal agents in New York City gathered to discuss how to network among the few Asian Americans within the various federal law enforcement agencies.

Eugene Lee, a retired NYPD detective and a founding father of the NYPD Asian Jade Society, proposed to form a fraternal group to network and to increase the number of Asians in federal law enforcement. The group of men consisting of Paul Chen (U.S. Customs Service), Douglas Loo (U.S. Customs Service), Edward Choo (U.S. Customs Service), Barry Tang (U.S. Immigration), Herman Ng (FBI) and Eugene Lee (FAA) formed the Society of Asian Federal Officers.

The founding fathers' purpose in creating the Society was to give a voice to Asians in federal law enforcement, to promote federal law enforcement as a premier occupation, to assist its membership in their professional career path, to act as a support mechanism for us to network with fellow agents and to help those that will follow us.

Over the years, the Society has expanded its membership to include non law enforcement personnel in the federal as well as city and state agencies.