Exhibit 24.1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
WHEREAS, NorthWestern Corporation, a Delaware corporation (herein referred to as the “Company”) is to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, one or more Registration Statements on Form S-3 relating to the issuance and sale of up to 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company under the Company's Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan; and
WHEREAS, each of the undersigned holds the office or offices in the Company set forth opposite his or her name below, respectively.
NOW, THEREFORE, each of the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Robert C. Rowe, Brian B. Bird, and Timothy P. Olson, and each of them individually, his or her attorney, with full power to act for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead, to sign his or her name in the capacity or capacities set forth below to the Form S-3 Registration Statements relating to the issuance and sale of 500,000 shares of common stock of the Company under the Company's Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan, and to any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to such Registration Statements, and hereby ratifies and confirms all that said attorney may or shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands this 23rd day of July, 2012.
Signature | Title | Date |
/s/ E. Linn Draper, Jr. | Chairman of the Board | July 23, 2012 |
E. Linn Draper, Jr. | ||
/s/ Robert C. Rowe | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director | July 23, 2012 |
Robert C. Rowe | (Principal Executive Officer) | |
/s/ Brian B. Bird | Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and | July 23, 2012 |
Brian B. Bird | Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer) | |
/s/ Kendall G. Kliewer | Vice President and Controller | July 23, 2012 |
Kendall G. Kliewer | (Principal Accounting Officer) | |
/s/ Stephen P. Adik | Director | July 23, 2012 |
Stephen P. Adik | ||
/s/ Dorothy M. Bradley | Director | July 23, 2012 |
Dorothy M. Bradley | ||
/s/ Dana J. Dykhouse | Director | July 23, 2012 |
Dana J. Dykhouse | ||
/s/ Julia L. Johnson | Director | July 23, 2012 |
Julia L. Johnson | ||
/s/ Philip L. Maslowe | Director | July 23, 2012 |
Philip L. Maslowe | ||
/s/ D. Louis Peoples | Director | July 23, 2012 |
D. Louis Peoples |