Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Christie a Newark, New Jersey, ga Sondra A. (née Grasso), mai karɓar tarho, da Wilbur James "Bill" Christie, ƙwararren mai lissafin jama'a wanda ya kammala karatu a Makarantar Kasuwancin Rutgers. Mahaifiyarsa ta kasance daga asalin Italiyanci (Sicilian), kuma mahaifinsa dan asalin Jamus ne, ɗan Scotland, da ɗan asalin Irish. Iyalin Christie sun koma Livingston, New Jersey, bayan tashin hankalin Newark na 1967
, kuma Christie ya zauna a can har sai ya sauke karatu daga makarantar sakandaren Livingston a shekarar 1980. A Makarantar Sakandare ta Livingston, Christie ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban aji, ya taka leda a kungiyar kwallon kwando, kuma an zaba shi a matsayin wakilin New Jersey zuwa Shirin Matasa na Majalisar Dattijan Amurka.