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AUGUST–SEPTEMBER 2010 · THE SUCCESSION
The handover: Mishawaka's modern mayoral succession was settled, once, by no election at all. Jeff Rea, mayor from the start of 2004, resigned the office in August 2010 — not at an election, not in scandal, but to head the St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce, a mayor leaving City Hall for the region's business chair. The Government section states what followed in the sentence that makes it this section's business: his departure set up "the one succession in the modern record that no election decided." Dave Wood took the office on 7 September 2010 by the party caucus the vacancy law provides, and then held it the ordinary way — re-elected since, and mayor still at this build's check date, the longest-serving mayor in the city's record by the span the Story of Mishawaka section computes. The oddity is the door he came in by: the city's longest modern tenure began in a committee room, in the one handover the voters had no part in.
Sources: the Government section of this history — Jeff Rea, 2004–August 2010, the resignation to head the St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce, and the succession characterized there; the Story of Mishawaka section section — Dave Wood mayor from 7 September 2010, and his tenure's span.