He also worked as a teacher in Wethersfield, Connecticut and Baltimore, Maryland prior to 1795, when he entered the Litchfield Law School.

After his admission to the bar, in 1798 he became associated with the law school's founder, Tapping Reeve as professor in that institution.

Gould was raised in 1816 to the office of judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, from which he was displaced in 1818 by the adoption of the new constitution.

William Tracy Gould would later move to Georgia where he established a law school based upon the Litchfield model.

Another descendant (his great-grandson) was noted New York Times TV critic, Jack Gould.