[1][2][3] After the General Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information took effect, this became the National Institute of Transparency, Information Access, and Personal Data Protection (Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales; INAI), of which she remained president through 2017 and commissioner through March 2018.

Puente de la Mora was sworn in as commissioner of the Institute of Transparency, Access to Public Information, and Data Protection of the State of Colima on August 9, 2011, in an order that would conclude in 2018.

[6] The next day, the seven commissioners unanimously elected Ximena Puente de la Mora as the agency's president for a term extending until 2016.

Since 2014 she has been part of the International Academic Council of the Latin American Journal of Personal Data Protection [es].

On March 17, 2018, Puente's name appeared on the Institutional Revolutionary Party's list of proportional representation federal deputies from the fifth electoral region, containing her home state of Colima,[8] ahead of the 2018 general election; however, Puente was not an active PRI member.