EX-24 6 g83188exv24.txt 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 $30,000,000 Deferred Compensation Obligations of the Corporation pursuant to the First Horizon Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan ("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 ---------------------------- a Director June 11, 2003 Ralph Horn J. Kenneth Glass President, Chief Executive ---------------------------- Officer and a Director (principal J. Kenneth Glass executive officer) June 11, 2003 James F. Keen Executive Vice President, Chief ---------------------------- Financial Officer and Corporate James F. Keen Controller (principal financial officer and principal accounting officer) June 11, 2003 Robert C. Blattberg Director June 11, 2003 ---------------------------- Robert C. Blattberg George E. Cates Director June 11, 2003 ---------------------------- George E. Cates James A. Haslam, III Director June 11, 2003 ---------------------------- James A. Haslam, III
Page 1 of 2 R. Brad Martin Director June 11, 2003 ---------------------------- R. Brad Martin Vicki R. Palmer Director June 11, 2003 ---------------------------- Vicki R. Palmer Michael D. Rose Director June 11, 2003 ---------------------------- Michael D. Rose William B. Sansom Director June 11, 2003 ---------------------------- William B. Sansom Jonathan P. Ward Director May 13, 2003 ---------------------------- Jonathan P. Ward Luke Yancy III Director May 13, 2003 ---------------------------- Luke Yancy III
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