Exhibit 24

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears below
does hereby make, constitute and appoint each of Joseph D. Emanuel, C.
Christopher Sprague, and Thomas S. Clark, as his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent with all power and authority on his behalf to sign
his name, in any and all capabilities, Form S-3 registration statements of
Pruco Life Insurance Company pertaining to, but not limited to, (a) the Market
Value Adjustment option that accompanies Pruco Life Insurance Company's
Strategic Partners Annuity One, Strategic Partners Select, Strategic Partners
FlexElite, and Discovery Select annuities, and (b) the Strategic Partners
Horizon Annuity.

This grant of authority extends to any and all amendments to such registration
statements, and also grants such attorneys-in-fact full power to appoint a
substitute or substitutes to act hereunder with the same power and authority as
said agent and attorney-in-fact would have if personally acting.

The undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney-in-fact
and agent may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed hereunder this 12th day of
February 2009.


/s/ Stephen Pelletier
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Stephen Pelletier
Director
Pruco Life Insurance
Company

Signed and Sealed on this __ day of February, 2009.

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