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'''Julie Skinner Stokes''' (born January 1970) is a [[Certified Public Accountant]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 79 in Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. She is a candidate for Louisiana Secretary of State in the special election scheduled for November 6, 2018, with a December 8 runoff if needed.

'''Julie Skinner Stokes''' (born January 23, 1970) is a [[Certified Public Accountant]] who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 79 in Kenner in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]. She is a candidate for Louisiana Secretary of State in the special election scheduled for November 6, 2018, with a December 8 runoff if needed.

Until her diagnosis of [[breast cancer]] in 2017, Stokes had been a candidate<ref name=breastcancer>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/julie_stokes_treasurer_not_run.html|title=Julie Stokes quits Louisiana treasurer race after breast cancer diagnois|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=July 6, 2017|author=Julia O'Donoghue|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref> for state treasurer in the special election held on October 14, 2017, to choose a successor to [[John Neely Kennedy]], who was elected in 2016 to the [[United States Senate]] to succeed fellow Republican [[David Vitter]]. Stokes underwent [[chemotherapy]] and remains a legislator.<ref name=breastcancer/> Her legislative colleague, [[John Schroder]], from St. Tammany Parish, won a special election runoff against an [[African-American]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] for the right to succeed Kennedy.

Until her diagnosis of [[breast cancer]] in 2017, Stokes had been a candidate<ref name=breastcancer>{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/07/julie_stokes_treasurer_not_run.html|title=Julie Stokes quits Louisiana treasurer race after breast cancer diagnois|publisher=''The New Orleans Times-Picayune''|date=July 6, 2017|author=Julia O'Donoghue|accessdate=March 24, 2018}}</ref> for state treasurer in the special election held on October 14, 2017, to choose a successor to [[John Neely Kennedy]], who was elected in 2016 to the [[United States Senate]] to succeed fellow Republican [[David Vitter]]. Stokes underwent [[chemotherapy]] and remains a legislator.<ref name=breastcancer/> Her legislative colleague, [[John Schroder]], from St. Tammany Parish, won a special election runoff against an [[African-American]] [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] for the right to succeed Kennedy.