Power of Attorney

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned (the "Reporting Person")
hereby constitutes and appoints each of Kenneth D. DeGiorgio, Jeffrey S.
Robinson, Stacy S. Rentner and Susan Vivino, signing singly, as the Reporting
Person?s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)	prepare, execute in the Reporting Person's name and on the Reporting
Person's behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents
necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the Reporting
Person to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the rules thereunder
or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2)	execute for and on behalf of the Reporting Person, in the Reporting
Person's capacity as an officer and/or director of The First American
Corporation, a California corporation (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in
accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
rules thereunder, and any other forms or reports the Reporting Person may be
required to file in connection with the Reporting Person?s ownership,
acquisition, or disposition of securities of the Company;

(3)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the Reporting
Person which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
Form 3, 4 or 5, or other form or report, and timely file such form or report
with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(4)	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, and in the best interest of, or legally required by, the Reporting
Person, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the Reporting Person 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-fact's discretion.

The Reporting Person 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 Reporting Person 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-fact's substitute 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 Reporting Person
acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity
at the request of the Reporting Person, are not assuming, nor is the Company
assuming, any of the Reporting Person?s 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
Reporting Person is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect
to the Reporting Person's holdings of and transactions in securities issued
by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the Reporting Person in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Reporting Person has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 26th day of March, 2009.


		        /s/ Dennis J. Gilmore
			Signature

                        Dennis J. Gilmore
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