Christine was born and raised in Eugene, and spent her formative years ("babyhood to marriage," as she puts it) at the First Baptist Church - now the Shedd - where she played piano and sang in the choir. She met her husband of fifty years, the Hon. Michael Hogan, in the choir room, and the two later married in the church sanctuary. Christine has a Masters in Elementary Education from the UO with a speciality in Developmentally Delayed children. When she stopped teaching to raise the Hogan children she became a volunteer for many years in the children's schools, the Eugene Symphony Guild and First Book.