Pablo John Garcia
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Pablo John F. Garcia is a Filipino
Philippines
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 politician. A a member of KAMPI
Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino
The Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino , formerly the Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino , was a political party in the Philippines. It is the mother party of the incumbent Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo...

 and the One Cebu
One Cebu
One Cebu is a provincial political party based in the province of Cebu. It is headed by Gwendolyn Garcia, the current governor of Cebu.- History :...

 party, Garcia was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines
House of Representatives of the Philippines
The House of Representatives of the Philippines is the lower chamber of the...

 in 2007, representing the Third District of Cebu.

Personal life

Pablo John, 42, and Karen Flores-Garcia have 2 daughters: Sofia, 8 and Gabriela, 2. His sister Gwendolyn Garcia
Gwendolyn Garcia
Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia , commonly known as Gwen, is the Governor of the Philippine province of Cebu. She was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2007. She is Cebu's first woman governor...

 is the eldest daughter of Pablo P. Garcia
Pablo P. Garcia
Pablo Paras Garcia is a Filipino politician. A graduate of the University of San Carlos, Garcia placed 3rd in the 1951 Philippine Bar Examination with a rating of 91.5%. Garcia served as governor of Cebu from 1995 to 2004. He had previously served as the vice-governor of Cebu from 1969 to 1971...

 and Judge
Judge
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 Esperanza “Inday” Fiel-Garcia, who had 8 children (4 sons). Pablo John is the youngest. His other brother Byron, is a security consultant for the Cebu provincial government, and caught global attention in 2007 due to Thriller (viral video)
Thriller (viral video)
Thriller is a viral video featuring the dancing inmates of a high-security penitentiary. In 2007, the inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center , a maximum security prison in Cebu, Cebu, the Philippines, imitated the zombie dance featured in the music video of Michael Jackson's...

. His other brother, Winston Garcia, is the incumbent manager of the Government Service Insurance System (Philippines)
Government Service Insurance System (Philippines)
The Government Service Insurance System is a government-owned and -controlled corporation in the Republic of the Philippines. Created by Commonwealth Act No...

.
Garcia's father Pablo served as governor of Cebu from 1995 to 2004 and currently serves alongside his son in the House of Representatives, as the member from the Second District of Cebu. Garcia's sister Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Garcia
Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia , commonly known as Gwen, is the Governor of the Philippine province of Cebu. She was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2007. She is Cebu's first woman governor...

 was elected governor of Cebu in 2004 and re-elected in 2007.

Education and career

Pablo John finished elementary at the Cebu
Cebu
Cebu is a province in the Philippines, consisting of Cebu Island and 167 surrounding islands. It is located to the east of Negros, to the west of Leyte and Bohol islands...

 Sacred Heart School for Boys, and high school, at the University of the Philippines College Cebu High School (UP High), 1984, with Gold Medal for Journalism. At the Ateneo de Manila University
Ateneo de Manila University
The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

, 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
University of the Philippines College of Law
University of the Philippines College of Law or UP Law is the law school of the University of the Philippines. Since 1948, it has been located at the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City, the flagship campus of UP's seven constituent universities. Until the 1970s, night classes of...

 and placed 4th in the 1994 Philippine Bar Examination
Philippine Bar Examination
The Philippine Bar Examination is the professional licensure examination for lawyers in the Philippines.It is the only professional licensure exam in the country that is not supervised by the Professional Regulation Commission...

 with a rating of 86.5125%, as his father Pabling placed third in the 1951 bar exams, USC, 91.5%.

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
Gwendolyn Garcia
Gwendolyn Fiel Garcia , commonly known as Gwen, is the Governor of the Philippine province of Cebu. She was first elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2007. She is Cebu's first woman governor...

. He writes “Breakfast at Noon,” a Cebu Daily News column and later, at Sun.Star Cebu from 1998-2005.

Garcia & Garcia Law Offices (with address at 2091 Andres Abellana St., Guadalupe, Cebu City) is the law offices of Gov. Pablo P. Garcia
Pablo P. Garcia
Pablo Paras Garcia is a Filipino politician. A graduate of the University of San Carlos, Garcia placed 3rd in the 1951 Philippine Bar Examination with a rating of 91.5%. Garcia served as governor of Cebu from 1995 to 2004. He had previously served as the vice-governor of Cebu from 1969 to 1971...

and sons, Winston Garcia and Pablo John Garcia.
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