EX-99 9 d169517dex997.htm POWERS OF ATTORNEY Powers of Attorney

WILMINGTON FUNDS

(a Delaware statutory trust)

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each of the undersigned as trustees of Wilmington Funds (the “Trust”), a Delaware statutory trust, hereby constitutes and appoints the Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries of the Trust, and each of them with power to act without the others, his attorney-in-fact, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, to sign the Registration Statement on Form N-14 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the Trust as it relates to the reorganizations of the Wilmington Prime Money Market Fund and the Wilmington Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund into the Wilmington U.S. Government Money Market Fund, each a series of the Trust, and any and all amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and each of them shall have full power and authority to do and perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned in any and all capacities, all and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done, as fully and to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming that which said attorneys, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This instrument may be executed in one or more counterparts.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has herewith set his name and seal as of this 20 day of April 2016.

 

/s/ Robert H. Arnold

   

/s/ Joseph J. Castiglia

 
Robert H. Arnold, Trustee     Joseph J. Castiglia, Trustee  

/s/ John S. Cramer

   

/s/ Donald E. Foley

 
John S. Cramer, Trustee     Donald E. Foley, Trustee  

/s/ Daniel R. Gernatt, Jr.

   

/s/ Nicholas A. Giordano

 
Daniel R. Gernatt, Jr., Trustee     Nicholas A. Giordano, Trustee  

/s/ Christopher D. Randall

   

/s/ Richard B. Seidel

 
Christopher D. Randall, Trustee     Richard B. Seidel, Trustee