2. Pablo John Garcia
• Pablo John "PJ" Fiel Garcia (born May 19, 1967) is
a Filipino lawyer and politician. He is a member of the National
Unity Party and the One Cebu party
3. Early life and family
• 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.
4. • Another 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 inmates
dancing to the music of, "Thriller". Another brother, Marlon, is the
incumbent Mayor of their hometown, Barili.
5. • 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 to 2013.
6. Education
• 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 to 1993.
7. Legal career
• 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 to 2005.[3]
• Garcia & Garcia Law Offices is the law offices of Gov. Pablo P.
Garcia and sons Winston Garcia and Pablo John Garcia.
8. Political career
• Garcia was elected to the House of Representatives of the
Philippines in 2007 and 2010, representing the Third District of
Cebu. In 2019, he ran as representative of the Third District of
Cebu, winning in a field of three with 52% of the vote. He defeated
former Senator John Henry Osmeña and
former Pinamungajan Mayor Geraldine Yapha. On July 30, 2019,
Pablo John was elected one of the deputy speakers of the 18th
Congress under the leadership of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano.
11. Notes
1. Profile, Pablo Garcia
2.^ List of Philippine Bar Topnotchers, 1913-2007 Archived 2008-07-
20 at the Wayback Machine
3.^ pablojohn.com, Pablo John Garcia: Following in his father's
footsteps
4.^ services.inquirer, The Garcias, the Aboitizes and
Meralco Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
