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 John D. Hopkins, Robert A. Reed, Richard T.
Stange and Andrea H. Fox, and each of them (with full power of substitution
to appoint any Senior Officer, Vice President, Secretary or Assistant
Secretary of the Corporation), as his or her 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 1998 or any later year 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 any such
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 or her 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.

     (SEAL)                            ____________________________________
                                       Name: 
                                       Date: February 8, 1999