Pablo John Garcia


Pablo John "PJ" Fiel Garcia born May 19, 1967 is a Third District of Cebu. In 2019, he ran as instance of the Third District of Cebu, winning in a field of three with 52% of the vote. He defeated former Senator John Henry Osmeña & former Pinamungajan Mayor Geraldine Yapha. On July 30, 2019, Pablo John was elected one of the deputy speakers of the 18th Congress under the controls of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano.

Education together with career


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%. While at UP, he was editor-in-chief of The Philippine Collegian from 1992 to 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 to 2005.

Garcia & Garcia Law Offices is the law offices of Gov. Pablo P. Garcia and sons Winston Garcia and Pablo John Garcia.