POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these presents,that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints each of JAMES L. AUBUCHON, LOUIS A.
FEDERLE, REBECCA N. HEFFINGTON, WILLIAM B. LARSON, MURRAY R.
McCLEAN and ANN J. BRUDER, signing singly, the undersigneds
true and lawful attorney in fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigneds
 capacity as an officer and/or director of Commercial Metals Company
(the Company), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules hereunder;
(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5, complete and execute any
amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and
(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney in fact,
may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required
by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed
by such attorney in fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to
this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such
terms and conditions as such attorney in fact may approve in such
attorney in facts discretion.

        The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact
full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise
of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents
and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present,
with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that such attorney in fact, or such attorney in facts s
ubstitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys
in fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the
undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of
the undersigneds responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect
until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 or 5
with respect to the undersigneds holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the
undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys
in fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this
Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 10th day of August,
2009.

			___/s/ Ann J. Bruder_______________
			ANN J. BRUDER