Pablo John Garcia

Pablo John is the youngest child of former Governor, Congressman and Deputy Speaker Pablo P. Garcia and the late Judge Esperanza “Inday” Fiel-Garcia, who bore eight children. The eldest, Gwendolyn Garcia, is the incumbent Governor of the Province of Cebu, who also served as Congresswoman of the Third District from 2013 to 2019, after having served three terms as Governor of Cebu, from 2004 to 2013. His brother, Winston Garcia, is the former manager of the Government Service Insurance System (Philippines) and the official candidate of One Cebu for Governor on May 9, 2016. [1] His brother Byron, is a former security consultant for the Cebu provincial government, and caught global attention in 2007 after directing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the viral video of dancing inmates, Thriller (viral video). Another brother, Marlon, is the incumbent Mayor of their hometown, Barili.

Garcia's father Pablo served three terms as governor of Cebu from 1995 to 2004, after having served as Congressman of the Third District of Cebu from 1987 to 1995. He then became Congressman of the Second District of Cebu from 2007-2013.

Pablo John is married to Karen Hope M. Flores and has 4 children: Sofia, Gabriela, Pablo Andres, and Juan Francisco.

Pablo John finished elementary at the Cebu Sacred Heart School for Boys, and high school, at the University of the Philippines - Cebu High School (UP High), 1984, with Gold Medal for Journalism. At the Ateneo de Manila University, Pablo John became a Merit Scholar, in the Economics Honors Program, but he shifted to Philosophy, and graduated in 1989. In 1993, he graduated at the University of the Philippines College of Law and placed 4th in the 1993 Philippine Bar Examination with a rating of 86.5125%, as his father Pabling placed third in the 1951 bar exams, USC, 91.5%.[2] While at UP, he was editor-in-chief of The Philippine Collegian from 1992-1993.

Pablo John, in 1995, worked as managing partner of Garcia Garcia Ong Vaño, the law firm Winston established. He handled the celebrated Batas Pambansa Blg. 22 case, "Lina Lim Lao versus The Court of Appeals, et al.", G.R. No. 119178, 30 June 1997. He then served as strategist, chief legal counsel, and consultant of Gwendolyn Garcia. He writes “Breakfast at Noon,” a Cebu Daily News column and later, at Sun.Star Cebu from 1998-2005.[3]

Garcia & Garcia Law Offices (with address at 2091 Andres Abellana St., Guadalupe, Cebu City) is the law offices of Gov. Pablo P. Garcia and sons, Winston Garcia and Pablo John Garcia.[4]

• "Member Information: Pablo John F. Garcia". House of Representatives of the Philippines. Retrieved 2008-03-19.