Supreme Court Justice Christine Vertefeuille Resigns.

Lame duck Governor M. Jodi Rell will have a vacancy to fill on the State Supreme Court.  Justice Christine Vertefeuille, appointed by Governor John G. Rowland, will take senior status as of June 1, 2010. She is 59 years old, 11 years away from the court’s mandatory retirement age.

Justice Vertefeuille is said to have been motivated by the specter of changes in compensation (longevity payments, for example) for judges and also the tensions among justices that have become more vexing in the day-to-day life in the state’s highest court.

Here’s Justice Vertefeuille’s letter to Rell:

J Vertefeuille