He was defeated by Hilario Davide III, the son of former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Hilario Davide, Junior. His sister Gwendolyn Garcia is the eldest daughter of Pablo P. Garcia and Judge Esperanza “Inday” Fiel-Garcia, who have 8 children (5 sons).
Ateneo de Manila University. University of the Philippines.
Pablo John finished elementary at the Cebu Sacred Heart School for Boys, and high school, at the University of the Philippines - Cebu High School (Uttar Pradesh 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 1994 Philippine Bar Examination with a rating of 86.5125%, as his father Pabling placed third in the 1951 bar exams, University of Southern California, 91.5%.
He handled the celebrated Batas Pambansa Blg.
22 case, "Lina Lim Lao versus The Court of Appeals, et al.", G.R. Number. 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.
A member of NUP, United Nationalist Alliance and the One Cebu party, Garcia was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 2007 and 2010, representing the Third District of Cebu.
