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The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Connecticut Supreme Court / Joined 2000 / Former Justice

Christine S. Vertefeuille

Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court

Christine S. Vertefeuille was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2000. She previously served on the Connecticut Appellate Court. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 2000 · 26 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Connecticut Appellate Court	–	–
2000	Connecticut Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Trinity College
Trinity College

Judicial Record

In our data, Vertefeuille authored 318 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 15 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Appleton v. Board of Education (636 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 145 of these were attributed to Vertefeuille by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2000	Appleton v. Board of Education†	254 Conn. 205	636
2003	Carrol v. Allstate Insurance†	262 Conn. 433	188
2001	State v. Kelly†	256 Conn. 23	162
2004	State v. Peeler†	857 A.2d 808	157
2006	State v. Warholic†	278 Conn. 354	150
2003	State v. Rizzo· Concurrence†	266 Conn. 171	127
2006	State v. Fagan· Dissent†	905 A.2d 1101	122
2006	State v. Brunetti· Dissent†	279 Conn. 39	116
2002	Pestey v. Cushman†	259 Conn. 345	113
2008	Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health· Dissent†	957 A.2d 407	111
2006	Vertex, Inc. v. City of Waterbury†	278 Conn. 557	105
2002	United Illuminating Co. v. Wisvest-Connecticut, LLC†	259 Conn. 665	99
2009	State v. Hampton	988 A.2d 167	98
2001	Cobham v. Commissioner of Correction†	258 Conn. 30	95
2000	Hoskins v. Titan Value Equities Group, Inc.†	252 Conn. 789	93

Showing the 15 most-cited of 339 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Connecticut Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court was Christine S. Vertefeuille on?: Christine S. Vertefeuille was a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

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26 years on the Connecticut Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).