EX-99.13 4 c93676bexv99w13.txt POWER OF ATTORNEY Minnesota Life Insurance Company Power of Attorney To Sign Registration Statements WHEREAS, Minnesota Life Insurance Company ("Minnesota Life") has established certain separate accounts to fund certain variable annuity and variable life insurance contracts, and WHEREAS, Variable Fund D ("Fund D") is a separate account of Minnesota Life registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940 offering variable annuity contracts registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and WHEREAS, Variable Annuity Account ("Variable Annuity Account") is a separate account of Minnesota Life registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940 offering variable annuity contracts registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and WHEREAS, Minnesota Life Variable Life Account ("Variable Life Account") is a separate account of Minnesota Life registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940 offering variable adjustable life insurance policies registered under the Securities Act of 1933, and WHEREAS, Minnesota Life Variable Universal Life Account ("Variable Universal Life Account") is a separate account of Minnesota Life which has been established for the purpose of issuing group and individual variable universal life insurance policies on a variable basis and which is to be registered as a unit investment trust under the Investment Company Act of 1940 offering group and individual variable universal life insurance policies to be registered under the Securities Act of 1933. NOW THEREFORE, We, the undersigned Directors and Officers of Minnesota Life, do hereby appoint Dwayne C. Radel and Gary R. Christensen, and each of them individually, as attorney in fact for the purpose of signing their names and on our behalf as Directors of Minnesota Life and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Registration Statements, or any amendment thereto, for the purpose of: a) registering contracts and policies of Fund D, the Variable Annuity Account, the Variable Life Account and the Variable Universal Life Account for sale by those entities and Minnesota Life under the Securities Act of 1933; and b) registering Fund D, the Variable Annuity Account, the Variable Life Account and the Variable Universal Life Account as unit investment trusts under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Signature Title Date /s/ Robert L. Senkler Chairman of the Board, April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ President and Chief Robert L. Senkler Executive Officer
Signature Title Date /s/ Mary K. Brainerd Director April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ Mary K. Brainerd /s/ John W. Castro Director April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ John W. Castro /s/ John E. Gherty Director April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ John E. Gherty /s/ John F. Grundhofer Director April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ John F. Grundhofer /s/ John H. Hooley Director April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ John H. Hooley /s/ Dennis E. Prohofsky Director April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ Dennis E. Prohofsky /s/ Randy F. Wallake Director April 4, 2005 ------------------------------------------ Randy F. Wallake