Federal Criminal Law Attorney Richard H. Garcia returns for his second term as Mayor of the City of Edinburg, after serving from 2003-2006. A native of Edinburg, Garcia Graduated from Edinburg High School in 1964 and continued his education at the University of Texas-Pan American and received a Juris Doctorate at Texas Southern University in Houston. He served as Edinburg Municipal Judge from 1975-1978 and was a County Court of Law Judge for 16 years. Garcia is the only person to have served as chair of the Texas Border Coalition twice back in 2004 and 2005 and is proud to have been appointed to serve on the Texas Adult Probation Commission. He is currently the President of the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation. He has two daughters, Gina Garcia and Mrs. Katherine Perez, as well as two grandsons, Richard Xavier Perez and William Alexander Perez.