TEXAS INDUSTRIES INC
10-K405, EX-24.1, 2000-08-24
STEEL WORKS, BLAST FURNACES & ROLLING MILLS (COKE OVENS)
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                                                                    EXHIBIT 24.1

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints ROBERT D.
ROGERS, RICHARD M. FOWLER and JAMES R. McCRAW, and each of them, with full power
of substitution as the undersigned's attorney or attorney-in-fact, to sign for
each of them and in each of their names, as members of the Board of Directors,
an Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended May 31, 2000, and any and all
amendments, filed by TEXAS INDUSTRIES, INC., a Delaware corporation, with the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of
1934, as amended, with full power and authority to do and perform any and all
acts and things necessary or appropriate to be done in the premises.

DATED:       July 13, 2000


                                                      /s/  JOHN M. BELK
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                           JOHN M. BELK
                                                           (Director)

                                                      /s/  GORDON E. FORWARD
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                           GORDON E. FORWARD
                                                           (Director)

                                                      /s/  GERALD R. HEFFERNAN
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                           GERALD R. HEFFERNAN
                                                           (Director)

                                                      /s/  JAMES M. HOAK
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                           JAMES M. HOAK
                                                           (Director)

                                                      /s/  IAN WACHTMEISTER
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                           IAN WACHTMEISTER
                                                           (Director)


                                                      /s/  ELIZABETH C. WILLIAMS
                                                     ---------------------------
                                                           ELIZABETH C. WILLIAMS
                                                           (Director)

STATE OF TEXAS     }
                   }
COUNTY OF DALLAS   }

         On this 13th day of July, 2000, before me personally came JOHN M. BELK,
GORDON E. FORWARD, GERALD R. HEFFERNAN, JAMES M. HOAK, IAN WACHTMEISTER AND
ELIZABETH C. WILLIAMS, known to me to be the same persons described in and who
executed the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged to me that (s)he
executed the same for the purposes therein stated.


                                                     /s/  GWYNN E. HERRICK
                                                    ----------------------
    [SEAL]                                          Notary Public in and for the
                                                    State of Texas



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