EX-24 5 g84625exv24.txt EX-24 POWER OF ATTORNEY EXHIBIT 24 POWER OF ATTORNEY KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below does hereby constitute and appoint JAMES F. KEEN, CLYDE A. BILLINGS, JR., and MILTON A. GUTELIUS, JR., jointly and each of them severally, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to execute and sign the Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, pursuant to the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, by First Tennessee National Corporation ("Corporation") relating to the issuance of 1,750,000 shares of the Corporation's Common Stock, par value $0.625 per share, pursuant to the 1997 Employee Stock Option Plan of First Tennessee National Corporation ("Plan") and, further, to execute and sign any and all pre-effective and post-effective amendments thereto and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all the acts that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Signature Title Date --------- ----- ---- Ralph Horn Chairman of the Board and September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- a Director Ralph Horn J. Kenneth Glass President, Chief Executive September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- Officer and a Director (principal J. Kenneth Glass executive officer) James F. Keen Executive Vice President, Chief September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- Financial Officer and Corporate James F. Keen Controller (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) Robert C. Blattberg Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- Robert C. Blattberg George E. Cates Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- George E. Cates James A. Haslam, III Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- James A. Haslam, III
Page 1 of 2 R. Brad Martin Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- R. Brad Martin Vicki R. Palmer Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- Vicki R. Palmer Michael D. Rose Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- Michael D. Rose William B. Sansom Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- William B. Sansom Jonathan P. Ward Director May 13, 2003 -------------------------------- Jonathan P. Ward Luke Yancy III Director September 12, 2003 -------------------------------- Luke Yancy III
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