His younger brother, Norby Chabert, a Democrat-turned-Republican, now holds this same District 20 seat, which encompasses Terrebonne and Lafource parishes.
He graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma and attended Nicholls State University in Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish.
As of 1996, he was the president of Mallard Pipe Testing & Tool Rental, Inc.[2] He has also worked for Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and the Houma Courier.
[3] Chabert ran unsuccessfully in 1983 for the District 53 seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives[4] before he won the Senate race eight years later upon his father's death.
[5] On February 2, 2013, the Chaberts, Leonard J., Marty J., and Norbert N., were inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, along with several other individuals, including the late State Senator Charles C. Barham and George Dement, the former mayor of Bossier City.