EXHIBIT 24

                          DIRECTORS' POWER OF ATTORNEY

    KNOW  ALL MEN BY THESE  PRESENTS, That each of  the undersigned Directors of
Protective Life Insurance Company, a  Tennessee corporation, ("Company") by  his
execution hereof or upon an identical counterpart hereof, does hereby constitute
and  appoint John D. Johns,  Maria E. Gutierrez, or  Jerry W. DeFoor, to execute
and sign the 1993 Annual Report on Form 10-K to be filed by the Company with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, pursuant to the provisions of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and, further, to execute and sign any and all amendments to
such Annual Report, and  to file same, with  all exhibits and schedules  thereto
and  all  other  documents  in connection  therewith,  with  the  Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said  attorneys-in-fact and agents, and  each
of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing
requisite  and necessary to be  done in and about the  premises, as fully to all
intents and purposes  as the  undersigned might or  could do  in person,  hereby
ratifying  and confirming all  the acts of said  attorneys-in-fact and agents or
any of them which they may  lawfully do in the premises  or cause to be done  by
virtue hereof.

    IN  WITNESS WHEREOF, each of  the undersigned has hereunto  set his hand and
seal this 25th day of March, 1994.

WITNESS TO ALL SIGNATURES:

/s/ JOHN K. WRIGHT                             /s/ DRAYTON NABERS, JR.
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John K. Wright                                 Drayton Nabers, Jr.

                                               /s/ R. STEPHEN BRIGGS
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                                               R. Stephen Briggs

                                               /s/ JOHN D. JOHNS
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                                               John D. Johns

                                               /s/ ORMOND L. BENTLEY
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                                               Ormond L. Bentley

                                               /s/ JIM E. MASSENGALE
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                                               Jim E. Massengale

                                               /s/ STEVEN A. SCHULTZ
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                                               Steven A. Schultz

                                               /s/ WAYNE E. STUENKEL
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                                               Wayne E. Stuenkel

                                               /s/ A.S. WILLIAMS III
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                                               A.S. Williams III

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