FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Voters Tuesday ousted the two judges who were prosecutors on the overturned Tim Masters case. Terry Gilmore and Jolene Blair were appointed in 2001.

Masters was convicted in the 1987 murder of Peggy Hettrick in Fort Collins. A judge overturned the verdict in 2008 when tests showed DNA at the scene did not match Masters.

"The people have listened," Troy Krenning, a spokesman for the group formed to oppose the two judges, told the Fort Collins Coloradan. "The people have spoken."

Masters sued the city of Fort Collins and Larimer County claiming officials ignored, withheld or destroyed evidence pointing to his innocence. In June, the city of Fort Collins agreed to pay Masters $5.9 million to drop his lawsuit. In February, Larimer County settled with Masters for $4.4 million.

Masters donated $3,000 to the campaign to unseat the judges.

"You guys did a hell of a job," Masters said to his friends, family and supporters at Mulligan's pub in Fort Collins, according to the Coloradan. The newspaper said Masters watched the returns with members of the Committee for Judicial Justice.

Blair and Gilmore's terms will end Jan. 11.