The City of South Bend is the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, and home to nationally ranked University of Notre Dame, as well as Saint Mary's College, Holy Cross College, Indiana University at South Bend, and Ivy Tech Community College. The growing city has also been featured in national news coverage for Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has achieved recognition for his various economic development projects within the city, his position as the youngest mayor to be elected in a city of more than 100,000 residents, and his essay in which he came out as the first openly gay executive in the state of Indiana. South Bend government follows the mayor-council representative model of municipal government and, along with the St. Joseph county government, occupies the County-City Building in downtown South Bend.