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EXHIBIT J
Minnesota Life Insurance Company
Power of Attorney
To Sign Registration Statements
WHEREAS, Minnesota Life Insurance Company ("Minnesota Life") has
established certain separate accounts to fund certain variable annuity and
variable life insurance contracts, and
WHEREAS, Variable Fund D ("Fund D") is a separate account of Minnesota Life
registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940
offering variable annuity contracts registered under the Securities Act of 1933,
and
WHEREAS, Variable Annuity Account ("Variable Annuity Account") is a
separate account of Minnesota Life registered as a unit investment trust under
the Investment Company Act of 1940 offering variable annuity contracts
registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and
WHEREAS, Minnesota Life Variable Life Account ("Variable Life Account") is
a separate account of Minnesota Life registered as a unit investment trust under
the Investment Company Act of 1940 offering variable adjustable life insurance
policies registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and
WHEREAS, Group Variable Annuity Account ("Group Variable Annuity Account")
is a separate account of Minnesota Life which has been established for the
purpose of issuing group annuity contracts on a variable basis and which is to
be registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of
1940 offering group variable annuity contracts and certificates to be registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, and
WHEREAS, Minnesota Life Variable Universal Life Account ("Variable
Universal Life Account") is a separate account of Minnesota Life which has been
established for the purpose of issuing group and individual variable universal
life insurance policies on a variable basis and which is to be registered as a
unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940 offering group
and individual variable universal life insurance policies to be registered under
the Securities Act of 1933.
NOW THEREFORE, We, the undersigned Directors and Officers of Minnesota
Life, do hereby appoint Dennis E. Prohofsky and Garold M. Felland, and each of
them individually, as attorney in fact for the purpose of signing their names
and on our behalf as Directors of Minnesota Life and filing with the Securities
and Exchange Commission Registration Statements, or any amendment thereto, for
the purpose of: a) registering contracts and policies of Fund D, the Variable
Annuity Account, the Variable Life Account, the Group Variable Annuity Account
and the Variable Universal Life Account for sale by those entities and Minnesota
Life under the Securities Act of 1933; and b) registering Fund D, the Variable
Annuity Account, the Variable Life Account, the Group Variable Annuity Account
and the Variable Universal Life Account as unit investment trusts under the
Investment Company Act of 1940.
Signature Title Date
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/s/ Robert L. Senkler Chairman of the Board, December 13, 1999
---------------------------- President and Chief
Robert L. Senkler Executive Officer
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Signature Title Date
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/s/ Anthony L. Andersen Director December 13, 1999
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Anthony L. Andersen
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Leslie S. Biller
/s/ John F. Grundhofer Director December 13, 1999
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John F. Grundhofer
/s/ Robert E. Hunstad Director December 13, 1999
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Robert E. Hunstad
/s/ Dennis E. Prohofsky Director December 13, 1999
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Dennis E. Prohofsky
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Michael E. Shannon
/s/ William N. Westhoff Director December 13, 1999
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William N. Westhoff
/s/ Frederick T. Weyerhaeuser Director December 13, 1999
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Frederick T. Weyerhaeuser
