EXHIBIT 24


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY


     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, an officer and/or
director of Jefferson-Pilot Corporation, a North Carolina holding company,
does hereby constitute and appoint Robert A. Reed, John D. Hopkins and J.
Gregory Poole, and each of them, with full power of substitution to appoint
any other Senior Officer, Vice President, Secretary or Assistant Secretary of
the Corporation, as his true and lawful attorney and agent, to do any and all
acts and things and to execute any and all instruments which said attorney and
agent may deem necessary or advisable to enable the said Corporation to comply
with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any rules,
regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission in
respect thereof, in connection with the filing of the annual report for the
year 1997 on Form 10-K, including specifically, but without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the power and authority to sign for and on behalf
of the undersigned the name of the undersigned as officer and/or director of
the said Corporation to the Form 10-K or to any amendment thereto filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission and to any instrument or document filed
as part of, as an exhibit to or in connection with, said Form 10-K or
amendment; and the undersigned does hereby ratify and confirm as his own act
and deed all that said attorney and agent (or the substitute) shall do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscribed these presents this
______ day of February, 1998.



                                     ________________________________(SEAL)
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