Goodrich was an assistant county attorney for
Anoka County, Minnesota from 1922 to 1923, On March 19, 1931, Goodrich was appointed to the Board of Tax Appeals by President
Herbert Hoover, having been endorsed for the appointment by West Virginia's senators,
Guy D. Goff and
Henry D. Hatfield. After leaving the court in 1935, he returned to private practice as a partner of the firm Guggenheimer, Untermyer and Goodrich, and "authored several articles on taxation and was lecturer of the Practicing Law Institute". ==Personal life and death==