A lifelong Baldwin County resident, Blackburn grew up in Bay Minette, attended high school in Daphne, and spent summers in Orange Beach working as a deckhand on a charter boat.

Blackburn graduated with honors from Cumberland School of Law in 2012 and returned home to Baldwin County immediately after passing the bar. For more than a decade, Blackburn worked in private practice with Blackburn & Conner, PC, where he handled a wide range of legal matters, including land use and real estate law, as well as litigation involving complex business disputes, bankruptcy matters, federal constitutional claims, and other high-stakes cases.

Since 2022, Blackburn has served as the captain of vessel for a large general contracting firm while continuing to handle complex civil litigation in state and federal court, appellate work, and transactional matters for a variety of clients.

Blackburn met his wife, Laura, in high school. The couple got married in June of 2011. Together, they have two young children, J.B. and Evie. They are members of Orange Beach Church, where Grant serves on a financial committee. Blackburn’s life and work have brought him into contact with people from all walks of life—from former inmates to corporate executives—reinforcing his belief that the values of honesty, fairness, authenticity, and candor matter to everyone.