Christine S. Vertefeuille

Christine Siegrist Vertefeuille[1] (born December 10, 1950) is a Senior Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

She graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1972 and the University of Connecticut School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1975.

During her tenure as a Superior Court Judge, she presided over the Connecticut silicone gel breast implant cases (1993–99).

Governor M. Jodi Rell appointed Superior Court Judge Dennis Eveleigh to succeed her.

On October 10, 2008, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health that gay and lesbian couples could not be denied the right to marry because of the Equal Protection Clause of the state constitution.