William R. Stokes is an American politician and former Mayor of Augusta, the capital city of the U.S. state of Maine.
[2] Stokes was also the Chief of the Criminal division of the Maine Attorney General's Office.
[3] On May 7, 2014, Stokes was nominated to serve as a Maine Superior Court justice by Governor Paul LePage.
Stokes would fill the seat currently held by Jeffrey Hjelm, who LePage nominated to serve on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
[2] Stokes was unanimously confirmed on July 31, and had said he would need to resign as mayor at that moment.