EXHIBIT 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Each of the undersigned directors and officers of Medtronic, Inc., a
Minnesota corporation ("Medtronic"), hereby constitutes and appoints WILLIAM W.
GEORGE and DAVID J. SCOTT, or either of them, their true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power and authority to act as such
without the other, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for the
undersigned and in the undersigned's name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to do any and all acts and things and to execute any and all
instruments that any of said attorneys and agents may deem necessary or
advisable in connection with Medtronic's registration of additional shares
underlying the 1994 Stock Award Plan in compliance with the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, with any regulations, rules or requirements of the Securities
and Exchange Commission thereunder, and with any state Blue Sky laws or
regulations in connection therewith, including specifically, but without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, power and authority to sign the names
of the undersigned to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 therefor, to any
amendment to such Registration Statement, and to any instrument or document
filed with said Commission as a part of or in connection with such Registration
Statement or any amendment thereto; and the undersigned hereby ratify and
confirm all that said attorneys and agents, or their substitutes or
resubstitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
The undersigned have set their names this 29th day of June 2000.
/s/ MICHAEL R. BONSIGNORE /s/ BERNADINE P. HEALY
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Michael R. Bonsignore Bernadine P. Healy M.D.
/s/ WILLIAM R. BRODY /s/ GLEN D. NELSON
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William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D. Glen D. Nelson, M.D.
/s/ PAUL W. CHELLGREN /s/ JEAN-PIERRE ROSSO
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Paul W. Chellgren Jean-Pierre Rosso
/s/ ARTHUR D. COLLINS, JR. /s/ JACK W. SCHULER
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Arthur D. Collins, Jr. Jack W. Schuler
/s/ WILLIAM W. GEORGE /s/ GORDON M. SPRENGER
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William W. George Gordon M. Sprenger
/s/ ANTONIO M. GOTTO
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Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., M.D.
