Amy McNair, longtime girlfriend of Clark County Family Court Judge Steven Jones, cries Monday after her court hearing regarding a protective order was postponed. Photo by Gary Thompson. Steven Jones Family Court judge on vacation in Alaska fishing with his son

The woman accusing Clark County Family Court Judge Steven Jones of domestic violence appeared in court Monday with clearly visible injuries to her face.

Amy McNair, 34, bore scabbed abrasions above and adjacent to her right eye as she stood in a hallway Monday, waiting in vain for a hearing at which she had hoped to get a protective order against the judge extended for up to a year.

Later, McNair cried in the hallway, and her attorney, Randall Roske, said her facial wounds are the result of an attack by the judge at his Henderson home last week.

James Jimmerson, an attorney for Jones, said McNair's allegations against Jones are false. He said McNair actually suffered the facial injuries when she fell during a drunken stupor at the judge's home days earlier.

"He has never committed domestic violence against this woman," Jimmerson said. "(This) is largely associated with her continued challenges with alcoholism and other abuse."

McNair has told police Jones, 48, shoved her at Jones' Henderson home last week, causing her to fall face first into a banister. Henderson police arrested the judge on a misdemeanor charge of battery/domestic violence.

Jones, as a Family Court judge, regularly oversees cases involving domestic violence, but in the wake of his arrest he was removed from any hearings involving such allegations.

On Monday, both Jones and McNair were scheduled to appear in the courtroom of Senior District Court Judge J. Charles Thompson for a request by McNair to extend a temporary protective order against Jones.

But Roske said Monday's hearing had to be canceled because Jones is on a fishing trip in Alaska. Jimmerson said Jones is on a vacation with his 10-year-old son.

Also Monday, Roske said that two days prior to Jones' arrest, a 911 call was made to police from Jones' house by McNair's mother.

He said Jones had struck McNair in the chest with a "karate chop," prompting police to respond to the residence.

Jones was not arrested, Roske said, because McNair was unable to tell police what really happened while talking to the police in the presence of the judge.

"My client was in a situation where she couldn't speak frankly to the police," Roske said.

Jimmerson, however, said the karate chop allegation is simply not true.

McNair told police "her mother had hit her with crutches," Jimmerson said.

Jimmerson said the facial wounds visible on McNair on Monday were the result of her falling in Jones' home while drunk -- not domestic violence.

"She hurt herself two or three days earlier, being intoxicated and falling out of bed and falling against a wall," Jimmerson said. "She also fell down some stairs."

According to police reports, however, Jones' arrest is the fourth time in four years that someone has been arrested at the judge's house near Interstate 215 and Valle Verde Drive.

In addition to Jones' arrest last week, McNair was arrested in October on a charge that she choked Jones' then-17-year-old daughter, Ashley. Roske said the charge against McNair will soon be dismissed as part of a plea agreement that required McNair to attend counseling.

Ashley Jones had been arrested in April 2005 in connection with a fight with McNair.

McNair had been arrested in January 2003 on a charge of domestic violence.

Monday's hearing regarding the extension of the protective order against Jones was rescheduled for Friday morning in Thompson's courtroom.

According to a press release issued by Clark County Court Information Officer Michael Sommermeyer, Thompson is refusing to let cameras into the courtroom for the proceedings. Cameras are routinely allowed into Nevada court proceedings. A reason for the unusual denial in this case was not given.

Last week, questions were raised as to how Jones was able to secure his release from the Henderson Detention Center. After one judge refused to intervene on Jones' behalf, District Judge Donald Mosley ordered Jones' release without bail after Jones' bailiff called Mosley Wednesday morning.

Sommermeyer said Mosley did not know at the time that a request had already been denied by Henderson Municipal Court Judge Ken Proctor.