Grant Ullrich holds professional degrees in law and architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He is currently employed as a law clerk-attorney in the Building and License Enforcement Division of the City of Chicago Department of Law, where he prosecutes building code cases in Cook County Circuit court, defends depositions of building inspectors, and is involved in an initiative to revise the Chicago Building Code.

As a student, Grant served as a representative of the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) on accreditation site visits conducted by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) annually from 2004 until 2008.  In 2005, he was an invited participant in Designing Tomorrow’s Architect, a national conference jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the National Council of Architecture Registration Boards (NCARB).  Grant was twice elected as graduate student representative to the Executive Committee of the Urbana-Champaign Senate, the student-faculty governing body of the Urbana-Champaign campus.  He also served as Chair of the Illinois Student Senate’s Committee on Senate Procedure in 2007-08 and oversaw a comprehensive revision of the organization's bylaws and assisted with the drafting of a proposed replacement constitution.

Grant previously worked as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Jeffery B. Ford, Champaign County Circuit Court, and as a law clerk for the University of Illinois’ Office of University Counsel.  He also has professional experience as an architectural intern and web designer.