Exhibit 24.1
Power of Attorney
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That each of the undersigned directors and/or officers of Arch Coal, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby constitutes and appoints Steven F. Leer, John T. Drexler and Robert G. Jones, and each of them, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power to act without the other, to sign the Company’s registration statement on Form S-8 and any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to do and perform any and all other acts and things requisite and necessary to be done in connection with the foregoing as fully as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
DATED: December 31, 2008
Signatures | Capacity | |
/s/ Steven F. Leer | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | |
/s/ James R. Boyd | Director | |
/s/ Frank M. Burke | Director | |
/s/ John W. Eaves | President, Chief Operating Officer and Director | |
/s/ Patricia F. Godley | Director | |
/s/ Douglas H. Hunt | Director | |
/s/ Brian J. Jennings | Director | |
/s/ Thomas A. Lockhart | Director | |
/s/ A. Michael Perry | Director | |
/s/ Robert G. Potter | Director | |
/s/ Theodore D. Sands | Director | |
/s/ Wesley M. Taylor | Director |