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POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)  
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.
/s/ B. J. Bernard
 B. J. Bernard

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)  
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.

 

/s/ J. Carter-Miller
J. Carter-Miller

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)  
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.
                                                                           /s/ G. E. Costley
G. E. Costley

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM                                      File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.
/s/ M. T. Dan
M. T. Dan

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)  
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.
                                                                          /s/ D. H. Ferro
D. H. Ferro

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM                       File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)                                                                                      
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013. 
 
                                                                         /s/ C. D. Gelatt, Jr.
C. D. Gelatt, Jr.

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM                          File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.
                                                                            /s/ S. L. Helton
S. L. Helton

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)  
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.
 
/s/ R. L. Keyser
R. L. Keyser  

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)  
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013.
 
/s/ L. Maestri
L. Maestri

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director of Principal Life Insurance Company,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints T. J. Lillis, K. E. Shaff, L. D. Zimpleman,
and J. N. Hoffman, and each of them (with full power to each of them to act alone), the undersigned's true and
lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution to each, for and on behalf and in the name, place
and stead of the undersigned, to execute and file any of the documents referred to below relating to registration
under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to the following Principal Life Insurance Company variable annuity
contract:  
 
PRINCIPAL INVESTMENT PLUS VARIABLE ANNUITYSM File No._______________________
(for applications signed on or after August 1, 2013)  
 
with premiums received in connection with such contracts held in the Principal Life Insurance Company
Separate Account B (File #811-02091) on Form N-4 or other forms under the Securities Act of 1933, and any
and all amendments thereto and reports thereunder with all exhibits and all instruments necessary or
appropriate in connection therewith, each of said attorneys-in-fact and agents and his or her or their substitutes
being empowered to act with or without the others or other, and to have full power and authority to do or cause
to be done in the name and on behalf of the undersigned each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
or appropriate with respect thereto to be done in and about the premises in order to effectuate the same, as fully
to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person; hereby ratifying and confirming all
that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned director has hereunto set his hand this 2nd day of May, 2013. 
 
/s/ E. E. Tallett
             E. E. Tallett