Biography
Charles Patrick García resides in Boca Raton, Florida. He was married to Allison Holtzman in 1993. The couple divorced in 2005, and he remarried Cristina Avila from Quito, Ecuador. García was born in Washington, D.C. to parents Carlos A. Garcia, a Panamanian surgeon, and Marilyn McCarthy Garcia. Shortly after he was born, the family moved to Panama City, Panama. He grew up in Panama City and graduated from Balboa High School, the American Canal Zone high school, in 1979. He obtained a bachelors degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1983.
From 1983 to 1988 as an Air Force junior officer, García served in staff officer assignments for U.S. Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska and at the United States Southern Command then located in Panama. During this period, Mr. García earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma.
In 1988, García received a one-year appointment to serve as one of fourteen White House Fellows for the 1988-1989 term. As a Fellow, García was first assigned to work on the staff of the Department of State, then, several months later, to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Following his term in Washington, García returned to Air Force staff duty until he left active service in 1990.
In 1994, García obtained a juris doctor degree from Columbia Law School.
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