After serving in Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession in Brattleboro, Vermont. Among the prospective attorneys who studied under him was Frank L. Fish, who later served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Tyler was appointed to succeed William H. Walker as a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court in September 1887 and served until his resignation on December 1, 1908. He served as president of the Vermont National Bank from 1917 until 1923, and as president of the Vermont-Peoples' National Bank in 1923 and 1924.