High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David Huebner (born 1960) is the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He previously was an American lawyer based in Shanghai, where he specialized in international arbitration and mediation for the Los Angeles-based law firm, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. He is licensed as an attorney in both California and New York, and in the District of Columbia, and as a solicitor in England and Wales.