Christine Keller


Christine Elyse Keller is an American lawyer and judge from Connecticut. She is an Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.

Education

Keller received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College and her Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Legal career

She practiced family, personal injury and real estate law at Neighborhood Legal Services in Hartford and subsequently worked at the Office of the Corporation Counsel for the City of Hartford and the law firm of Ritter and Keller.

State judicial service

Administrative judge

In 2005, she was appointed Administrative Judge for the Judicial District of Hartford, a position she held until 2007, when she was reappointed a second time as Chief Administrative Judge for Juvenile Matters, a position she held until 2012.

Connecticut Appellate Court

On January 24, 2013, Keller was nominated by Governor Dan Malloy to be a judge of the Appellate Court; the General Assembly approved her nomination on March 6, 2013. She succeed Carmen E. Espinosa, who was nominated to the Connecticut Supreme Court. She was a Superior Court Judge, having been appointed by Governor Lowell P. Weicker Jr. in 1993, and a Family Support Magistrate, having been appointed by Governor William A. O’Neill in 1989.

Connecticut Supreme Court

On July 20, 2020, Governor Ned Lamont announced the appointment of Keller to the seat on the Connecticut Supreme Court vacated by Richard N. Palmer who retired on May 27, 2020 after reaching mandatory retirement age 70.

Personal life

Keller is the wife of the lobbyist and former House speaker, Thomas D. Ritter, and the mother of Rep. Matthew Ritter.