The Great Valley Center in Modesto announced Wednesday that Humboldt County Supervisor Mark Lovelace has completed the Great Valley Leadership Institute, a five-day leadership course for local elected officials in California.

This is the eighth year for the course, which is taught by Marty Linsky of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The curriculum, using a case study method, covers negotiation and shared decision making, ethics and coalition building, managing role challenges, self-assessment and leadership and other subjects relating to effective governance.

The course involved 11 members of school boards, city councils and county boards of supervisors meeting in Modesto.