SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Messina Richard P (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O STRATTEC SECURITY CORPORATION 3333 WEST GOOD HOPE ROAD (Street) MILWAUKEE WI 53209 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 12/01/2008	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol STRATTEC SECURITY CORP [ STRT ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) VP-Strattec Power Access LLC	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

No securities are beneficially owned.

	Richard P. Messina	12/04/2008
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
For Executing Forms 3, 4 and 5

     Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints each of James M. Bedore and
Eric P. Hagemeier, each with full power to act without the
other and with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
his true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

    1.	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of
STRATTEC SECURITY CORPORATION (the 'Company'), Forms 3, 4
and 5 in accordance with section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

    2.	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf
of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to
complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely
file such form with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar
authority; and

    3.	take any other action of any type whatsoever
in connection with the foregoing which, in the
opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents
executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be
in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions
as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his discretion.

     The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform any and every act
and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be
done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if personally present, with
full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his
substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and
powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that
the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity
at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is
the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's
responsibilities to comply with section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect
until the undersigned is no longer required to file
Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings
of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power
of Attorney to be executed as of this 4th day of
December, 2008.


/s/  Richard P. Messina
Richard P. Messina